Hey YouTube, this is Run to Christ and this is Studies in the Spirituality of
Jesuits and the title, Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Jews.
Now, just to give you a little bit of background before we get into this.
My video of the other day, if you didn't see it, is Superior General of the Jesuit
Order Ignatius of Loyola is a Crypto Jew, debunked.
Now, this video has come under a little bit of fire from people who would rather
believe their own conspiracy theories than actual historical facts.
Now, Loyola was not a Crypto Jew, it is literally impossible for that to be
true, based on the genetics of the Basques.
Loyola was a Basque and they were genetically isolated for thousands of
years.
They did not intermingle and as we peruse this book, Loyola and the Jews,
you're going to see just how seriously the Spaniards took that.
So, it starts here, this is just a little foreword and this is where it gets into
it.
Historical context in Spain.
The Jews of Spain endured a long history of oppression and subjugation,
beginning with the Council of Elvira in 306, which forbade close relations of
Christians and Jews.
In their meeting in southern Spain, the council fathers decreed, if any cleric
or one of the faithful takes a meal with Jews, they are ordered to abstain from
communion.
This restriction was mild, however, compared with those enacted in Visigothic
Spain under King Sisebut in 613, who presented Jews with the ultimatum of
baptism or exile.
Many fled the country, but many more were converted before Sisebut died.
A general discriminatory policy against Jews continued for many years,
with the 5th through 17th councils of Toledo containing some sort of legislation
against them.
Jews were gradually stripped of rights, and humiliating and painful punishments,
like flogging or pulling out of hair, were inflicted for misdemeanors.
Under King Rechiswinth in 653, all Jews were forced to sign a placitum,
a lengthy oath which made the practice of Judaism impossible.
Violations of the oath would result in death by fire or stone.
So the Jews in early years were persecuted, and they went 400 years under
Muslim rule.
The Jews flourished more than ever before, they enjoyed a time of prosperity,
creativity, and achieved great strides in poetry and rabbinic literature,
medicine and philosophy.
So successful was this period that the latter half became known as the Golden Era
of the Jews in Spain.
So what happened next is a fanatical Alamohades and their ultimatum,
Islam or death, many Jews fled north to Christian Spain, where the Reconquista was
making its slow progress.
A succession of humanist kings in Christian Spain from the 11th to 14th
centuries showered the Jews with honours and favours because of their economic and
creative abilities.
Ferdinand I of Castile, in 1027-1065, granted the Jews equal rights with
Christians and even gave them important positions in his court.
This is the beginning of what is known as the era of Papal Court Jews.
The Jews were given high positions in the courts next to kings so that they could
mediate between the Pope and the King when it came to finances.
Now this is still happening today.
This is why later on the Rothschilds and families such as that, this is how they
gained power.
The Rothschilds are called the Guardians of the Papal Treasury.
As you can see here, this is the Jewish encyclopedia.
Okay, the Rothschilds are Jewish so this is them recording their own history and
it's from their own mouths.
It is a somewhat curious sequel to the attempt to set up a Catholic competitor to
the Rothschilds that at the present time the latter are the Guardians of the Papal
Treasure.
So the Rothschilds are the Catholic Church accountants basically.
Okay, the papacy is the one in control, not the Rothschilds.
As we can see in the next sentence, of recent years the Rothschilds have
consistently refused to have anything to do with loans to Russia.
This is because they had a long-standing family grudge.
But after they became the Guardians of the Papal Treasure, loans to Russia went out.
Now this happened in 1893.
But the Jews are in high positions in Europe.
That's why they were called Papal Court Jews.
They were appointed by the Pope to act as go-betweens amongst kings and the papacy.
Continuing in Loyola and the Jews, Jewish prestige and power were especially
evident in the court of Toledo, the capital of Castile.
And among the nobles, no king was without a Jewish minister, counselor or physician.
Assuming control of court finances, Jews also lent money and collected taxes.
Envy of their success mounted over the years.
However, to such a fever pitch that in 1391, 4,000 Jews were killed in Seville.
Carnage spread throughout Spain, sweeping through 70 Jewish communities,
until in the end, some 50,000 Jews were dead and many more had been baptized.
In some districts, not a single Jew was left.
So the presence of this large number of newly baptized Jews, or conversos as they
were called, would to a large extent determine the future of Jews in Spain.
The church saw the Jews as a threat to the conversos and the state saw them as a
hindrance to the unification of Christendom.
Moreover, not all of the conversos had truly become Christians.
Many adhered outwardly to Christianity, but in varying degrees continued secretly
to practice Judaism.
This is where we get the term Crypto-Jew, which just means hidden Jew.
By 1492, not one Jew remained in Spain.
It cites the establishment of the Inquisition, segregation of Jews into
separate quarters, and expulsion of the Jews from Andalusia as steps were taken,
but still, the conversos problem remained.
The decree states, we have been informed by the Inquisitors and by other persons,
that the mingling of Jews with Christians leads to the worst evils.
The Jews try their best to seduce Christians and their children,
bringing them books of Jewish prayers and telling them of the days of the Jewish
holidays.
So, over the years, as sentiment against the Jews grew, the distinction between
these groups became blurred, and that between converted and non-converted Jews
seemed to disappear.
Their bad blood, malis angere, many thought made all the Jews,
all the Jews, whether converted or not, evil and perverse.
Now, this is genetic racism at its finest, and it was perpetrated by the Catholic
Church.
And everybody who was Catholic, especially in Spain, that's what they
believed.
Because the Spanish, as you're about to find out, had a really big deal about
blood and who you were related to.
Eventually, it continues to say, limpieza de sangre, purity of blood was a
major concern.
Purity of blood?
I see.
So that's rather like how Adolf Hitler used to think, wasn't it?
Purity of the Aryan race?
Yeah?
The purity of blood was a major concern.
So they didn't want to have relations with the Jews because of their bad blood.
The bad blood made them evil and perverse.
This is just pure out and out racism.
Judaism had not become only a religious problem, but an ethnic one as well.
It was in this context that Ignatius of Loyola, the seventh son of an old Basque
family, an old Basque family, the Onaz of Loyola, hardly one year before the edict
of expulsion was signed, so he cannot be a Jew.
It's just impossible because the genetic test done in 2015 proves that they had the
same bloodline for thousands of years.
So it goes on.
He probably met no Jews during his childhood in Spain.
The first mention of any kind of connection that he might have had with
Jews or Jewish Christians does not occur until he was interrogated by the
Inquisition soon after his conversion.
Here perhaps is his early attitude towards Jewish Christians revealed.
So Ignatius, while at Alcala studying and giving the spiritual exercises,
Ignatius was investigated three times by the Inquisition.
You would think that if the Inquisition investigated him three times for being
possibly a Cryptal Jew that they would have found out.
The reason he was investigated three times is he and his companions attracted much
attention by their youth, their apostolic activity, and the manner of their dress.
That got the attention of the Inquisition and they wondered who they were.
So the first two incidents were minor compared with the third which resulted in
a jail sentence of 42 days for Ignatius.
After Ignatius had been in jail for 17 days, the Vicar Figueroa finally
questioned him.
Polanco and his Vita Ignatia Laioli records the interrogation as follows.
When after the time described, the Vicar Figueroa came to question him
and among other things asked him if he recommended observance of the Sabbath,
that is Saturday, he replied, Ignatius replied, For Saturdays I recommend special
devotion to our Lady and I know of no other observances for Saturday.
Moreover in my country there are no Jews.
So how can he be a Jew if there's no Jews in the country and for the past hundreds
of years they've been persecuted.
There's a purity of blood act signed into law which by the way was only taken out of
law in the 20th century.
Doubtful of Ignatius origins Figueroa had dared to ask in veiled terms if his
suspect were not indeed a converso who remained faithful to the Jewish devotions.
Although it is difficult to say precisely what Ignatius intended by his response,
it would not be entirely unlikely that his answer to Vicar Figueroa indicates that
the Basque from Loyola in the province of... I don't even know how to pronounce
that...
Guapizcua?
I don't know.
Guipuzcoa.
Found the suggestion offensive.
This would certainly be in keeping with the attitude of Moes Guipucoans who
boasted that no Jew was even allowed to remain overnight in their province.
Perhaps Ignatius too shared the sentiments of his fellow Guipucoans who assumed a
superior stand to even old Christians from other Spanish provinces.
So his whole region and where he's from they were basically racist towards the
Jews.
They weren't even allowed to stay there overnight in the province.
And some people would like me to believe that Ignatius Loyola was a crypto-Jew and
that somewhere in his Spanish noble racist family, the Onaz of Loyola, somewhere they
married a Murano and had babies.
It's just not true.
But that brings me to the final point I would like to make and that is that I
realise that Jews are involved in the evils in this world but that does not mean
that all Jews should be painted with the same brush.
If those opponents who want me to believe that Loyola was a crypto-Jew, if they had
done any research into the subject rather than just believing what they heard on the
internet, they would have known how to cast doubt on my entire video because all
these people need is just a mere sniff of a Jew, the mere vapour of a Jew and it's
all conspiracy and they're in on it and they probably have a bank account with
Rothschild and such and such and so on.
This is how bad it's getting.
The same kind of hostility towards the Jews that has been around for thousands of
years is re-emerging today, now, with this whole attitude of blame it on
the Jews, it's the Jews who are doing all the evils in the world.
Not until his years of study at the University of Paris did Ignatius' more
mature attitude become gradually recognisable.
There he met Diego Leonis, a young man who had heard so much about Ignatius that
after finishing his studies at Alcala in 1532, he went to meet him in Paris.
Diego, whose father was a new Christian, came from a well-to-do family.
Though his Christian faith descended from three generations, Diego, because of his
great-grandfather's Jewish origin, was still considered a Jew.
So this information about Diego Leonis will no doubt get the conspiracy theorists
who want to blame everything on the Jews, saying, see, see, the Jesuits were Jews.
Yeah, but that's not true, that was only one guy, Diego Leonis, right?
And if you guys had known this, you would have brought it up already.
Diego Leonis ended up becoming the second Superior General after Ignatius Loyola
died.
So what then, are we to think that the Jesuits were Jews because of this?
I think not.
Because even though Ignatius Loyola was favourable towards the Jews, the Pope
eventually enacted a papal bill which Ignatius did not object to.
And the papal bill that I'm talking about.
So the Bill Cum Nime Absurdum.
Until 1555, Ignatius had dealt only with Jews who wished to convert.
The issue of the Bill Cum Nime Absurdum, with its unparalleled restrictions on the
Jews of Rome, provides us with the opportunity to see Ignatius' attitude
towards Jews who had no intention of converting.
Issued in 1555 by Pope Paul IV, the papal document mirrors what many 16th
century theologians had to say about the Jews.
You can pause it and read it.
So the Bill continues that, bearing in mind all these things, the Roman Church
nevertheless tolerates Jews in the witness of the true Christian faith, but that as
long as they persist in their errors, they will remain servants and the
Christians will be the only free people.
To overcome the evil power the Jews were gaining, the Holy See instituted measures
of unprecedented harshness.
The first of these was the establishment, for the first time in Rome and other papal
cities, of obligatory Jewish quarters.
After more than 1500 years of continuous residence in Rome, the Jews were to live
in a ghetto with only one gate to enter by.
That's right folks, the Holy Roman Empire was the one that started the Jewish
ghettos.
It did not come by the Nazis.
It was the Holy Roman Empire.
Speaking of Nazis though, there was one famous Jew that lived in a German ghetto,
a Holy Roman Empire Jewish ghetto, and that was Mayor D.
Rothschild.
It goes on to say, all synagogues except one in each city were to be destroyed,
and all Jews were to wear badges to indicate their Jewishness, and Ignatius
Loyola went along with this.
For the first time, papal policy was aimed primarily at converting Jews to
Christianity, whereas in the past there was only a vague expectation that the Jews
would eventually be converted.
So it goes on to say, the Jews are tolerated to the end that they may be
converted.
So Fr.
Giacomo Martina has traced the thinking behind the bull to a long line of Catholic
theologians who, beginning with Augustine, developed a theological foundation for
anti-Jewish sentiment, using St. Paul's example of the Old Testament figures of
Jacob, Esau, Sabaoth and Agar, using Romans 9.13 and Galatians 4.22-31 to
show Christianity's superiority over Judaism.
Augustine added a more temporal interpretation to Paul's doctrine.
The Jews, like Esau, have lost their birthright and must now serve their
younger brother Jacob.
So it's the Catholic Church that came up with replacement theology and it's they
who first claimed that they've lost their birthright and they tried to use scripture
to defend it.
So in 1555 and for many years afterward, the Pope, as head of the government of the
papal states, quite openly violated the equality and human dignity of the Jews and
precisely for religious reasons.
When the Bill was published, Ignatius sent copies of it far and wide with
instructions to pass them around to other Jesuit houses after they had been read.
In this way, he not only helped promulgate the Bill, but he seems to have agreed with
it.
In a letter to the rectors of Jesuit colleges, he comments that the Bill contra
Los Judios against the Jews is very necessary in those lands where they are
permitted to live, which also suggests that he thought the Jews were somehow
foreigners in a country they had occupied longer than the Christians, which seems to
be a common theme amongst modern conspiracy theorists, that Jews are
somehow foreigners in a country they had occupied longer than Palestinians,
for example.
And we'll get to history of Israel and Palestine in a future video.
But what's apparent here is the agreement with this unjust Bill.
Ignatius was guilty of the blindness of his time.
You see, when it comes to the end of the day, the Jesuits serve the Pope.
It goes on to say it should come as no surprise that Ignatius did indeed approve
of the Bill.
A hopeless victim of the blindness of his peers, while he seemed to have agreed with
the Bill and the establishment of the ghetto, showing a religious anti-Judaism,
he in no way shared what he called the temperament of his fellow Spaniards,
a phobia and dislike for all Jews, converted or not.
If we distinguish between race and religion, we find that although Ignatius
shared the strong feelings against the Jewish religion and all who practiced it,
he clearly transcended his age and his open-mindedness towards the Jews as a race
of people.
So there were some Jesuits that were Jews, but they were not crypto-Jews.
It was well known that these people were new Christians.
They did not practice Judaism, because if they did, they would have been
treated like how Rome treated Jews who refused to convert.
They would have been killed or expelled from the land.
And Loyola was in favour of that, to protect the one true faith.
What happened next?
Does this give ammo to fire at the Jewish New World Order?
Well, it would certainly seem that way.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves, because there's still a lot of history
that follows the appointment of a Jew, or at least by ancestry, Diego Lienes to
the Superior General.
What happened after that, however, should be taken note of.
Here we go...
The press for restrictive legislation did not stop at the death of the first
general, Loyola.
Even in the time of Lienes, the second Superior General of the Jesuits,
who was himself of Jewish blood, there were renewed attempts to restrict
admission of new Christians to the society.
The third general, Francis Boroggia, also endured and resisted the same
harangue as Ignatius from advocates in Spain of the purity of blood.
But it was not until the time of the fifth general, Claudio Aquaviva, that those who
sought to exclude anyone from Jewish lineage finally won out.
In 1592, Aquaviva wrote to the Provincials of Spain, that's the Jesuits, ordering
them not to receive new Christians into the society.
The final blow to the Ignatian attitude of openness came in 1593 at the fifth general
congregation, that's where they decide the Superior General.
With the passage of its decree 52, no one of Jewish or Muslim backgrounds
could ever enter the society.
Further, not even the general could dispense from this impediment.
The characteristic outlook of the Spanish elite had finally won out.
The matter was again raised in the sixth general congregation in 1608, and the
decree was mitigated to exclude only those whose Christianity could not be traced to
five generations.
This impediment was commonly called the impediment of origin.
These rules stood unchanged until the general congregation in 1928, a time which
we can now see the first effective beginnings of the desire for adaptation to
modern circumstances, which produced the Vatican Council too, and with it has
become so strong.
In a similar fashion, the impediment of origin remained unchanged from 1593 until
well into our 20th century, it was 1946 to be exact, as we see here.
The general congregation, convened in 1946, as soon as possible after the close
of World War II, abrogated the impediment of origin.
So you can see that from 1593 to 1946, no Jew or Muslim was allowed in the
Jesuits.
There was only a few of them originally, and they were not Crypto-Jews.
It was well known that they were Jews, they were not hidden.
So this, I feel, goes a long way to debunking any notion that Zionist Jews
created the Jesuits.
The Jesuits wanted to convert Jews and kill anyone that didn't.
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