The Society of Jesus was founded by St. Ignatius Loyola on September 27 of 1540 in Rome.
Since its beginning, his aim is the apostolic and emit the three religious vows.

The history of the Society of Jesus, is divided into two periods marked by extinction in the year 1773 and its subsequent restoration in 1814.
Just founded, its activities encompasses all aspects of religious life, which was the prototype of the the Counter-Reformation.

San Francisco Javier, in 1541, beginning with the mission in Asia, also placed in the Congo, (1547), Brazil (1549) and inall posterirmente the New World.

At the end of the sixteenth century presented the torture and death of the martyrs of Nahasaki in 1597.

The seventeenth century began with an expulsion first produced in Venice in 1606 and penetration in China.

At the beginning of the Jesuit, in the year 1607, Diego de Torres as Provincial Paraguay beginning the work of the Jesuits achieved over a century and a half, the pacification and the establishment of hundreds of thousands of Indians, organized in agrarian communities. The Indians of these cuts were included in the Crown, represented by the Jesuits.
The Indians were not subject to the order, although the work was required. The economic system was the community and although the work was agricultural, the Jesuits taught the Indians to various trades, creating craft.

Jesuit policy was adapted to the indigenous psychology and hence the success they had.

But soon voices were raised claims motivated by jealousy against the Jesuits, claiming that what was intended to create a Jesuit rule, which contributed to the actual decision to abolish the Jesuits in 1767.

The Jesuits were also expelled from Portugal in 1761, in France in 1764, in Spain in 1767, Sicily in 1765 and Parma in 1768.

The Society of Jesus, Tenen twenty-seven Santos thirteen of whom were martyred and two hundred and forty blesseds.

San Ignacio Basque was the founder of wealthy family, whose real name was that of Iñigo López de Recalde.

In 1521, defended the fortress of Pamplona against French attacks.

There he was wounded in the leg was taken to his home in Loyola.

Recovered from his injuries leaving her home in Loyola, and marched as a pilgrim to the Shrine of Montserrat in Barcelona, as a first step to go to the Holy Land. Then retired to the nearby town of Manresa and did penance in a cave near the river and there was where God communicated with him, sitting on the riverbank Cardoner had the premonition of what was to be his life thereafter forward.

Iñigo marched to the Holy Land and this trip made him realize that the world was undido by ignorance and had to study and learn in order to progress.

Arapientas their clothes, their desire to proselytize, the Inquisition warned that twice, it imprisons.

Habiendoce formed the Society of Jesus, beginning in Italy to preach.

The Society of Jesus represents the spirit of the Renaissance in the Church. Knights Jesuits, educated, polite manners, intended to win souls through the conviction and never by force.