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    Peter Jan Beckx, SJ (also Pieter Jan Beckx, in French Pierre Jean Beckx; 8 February 1795 – 4 March 1887) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, elected the twenty-second...
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    (resigned for reasons of failing health) and both his successors, Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach and Father Adolfo Nicolás. On 2 October 2016, General Congregation...
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    office, he articulated to the Superior General of the Jesuit order, Peter Jan Beckx, his vision of transforming Georgetown from a college into a true university...
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  • by Jan Vanderheyden with a.o. Jef Bruyninckx, and "De Witte van Sichem" by Robbe De Hert (1980). Ernest Claes (1885-1968), writer Peter Jan Beckx (1795-1887)...
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    Pope Pius IX commanded the Brief of beatification to be prepared. Peter Jan Beckx, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, petitioned the cardinal...
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  • years later in 1873 he became English Assistant to the Jesuit General, Peter Jan Beckx. He spent the last three years of his life with the Zambesi Mission...
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    transforming Georgetown into a modern "university" to the Superior General, Peter Jan Beckx. While Georgetown already fit the contemporaneous American definition...
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  • 1883, due to poor health, Boone asked the Jesuit Superior General, Peter Jan Beckx, to appoint a replacement. In June of that year, Boone was succeeded...
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    encountered stiff resistance. The duke chose as confessor the Belgian Jesuit Peter Jan Beckx. In Grimschleben near Nienburg he brought in the classicist architect...
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  • doctrinal differences proved an impediment; the doctrine of infallibility. Peter Jan Beckx, Father General of the Society, summoned him to Rome to act as official...
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    novitiate, by a special dispensation of the Jesuit Superior General, Peter Jan Beckx, O'Connor was permitted to make his solemn profession of the four religious...
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    in turn, asked the then Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Peter Jan Beckx, for the help. Te Superior General(a native of Belgium), in turn, chose...
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    about Clark had become frequent, and the Jesuit Superior General, Peter Jan Beckx, informed Clark that he would be removed as president in the middle...
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  • Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin on its foundation. Father Peter Jan Beckx, Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, proposed to appoint O'Reilly...
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  • 1956) 11 February – François Laurent (born 1810), historian 4 March – Peter Jan Beckx (born 1795), Jesuit 16 July – Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (born 1809)...
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    final vows on August 15, 1882, which were accepted by Superior General Peter Jan Beckx. Boursaud returned to the United States, and on July 31, 1884, he succeeded...
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    still bears the ex libris of Petrus Beckx, head of the Jesuit order and the university's rector at the time. Beckx's private library was moved to the Villa...
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  • "Russian clocks stay on summertime". BBC News. 30 October 2011. Int Panis, L.; Beckx, C. (2007). "Trucks driving at night and their effect on local air pollution"...
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    Vatican II council Nicolas-Ignace de Beaubois, French missionary to Quebec Jan Beckx, Belgian Superior General (1853-1887) Franz Jozef van Beeck, Dutch theologian...
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    scholastics teach alongside their studies. The new Superior General, Peter Beckx, proposed in 1855 that Georgetown be transformed into such a scholasticate...
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