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The Jesuits, founded in 1534, quickly became an army of theologians to combat heresy.
"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.
Its Huronia Museum and Gallery of Historic Huronia and the copy of a Huron village in Little Lake Park illustrate the simple lifestyle of the native peoples before the arrival of the Jesuits in the 17th century.
In the 17th century the Jesuits, headed by Matteo Ricci, had a profound influence not so much on Chinese religion (they made few converts among Beijingers) as on science, mathematics, astronomy, art, medicine, and other forms of knowledge that had never before been infused with Western ideas in China.
The results included fairer taxes; less Church influence in schools; more public education; and removal of the Inquisition, Jesuits, the death penalty, and instruments of torture.