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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER IV
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Ignatius, moreover, contemplated a vastly more expansive and elastic machinery for his workers in the vineyard of the faith, than the future Pope's coercive temper could have tolerated.
These two leaders of the Counter-Reformation, equally ambitious, equally intolerant of opposition, equally bent upon a vast dominion, had to separate.

The one was destined to organize the Inquisition and the Index.

The other evolved what is historically known as Jesuitry.
Nevertheless we know that Ignatius learned much from Caraffa.

The subsequent organization of his Order showed that the Theatines suggested many practical points in the method he eventually adopted for effecting his designs.
Some of his companions, meanwhile, journeyed to Rome.

There they obtained from Paul III.


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