It was settled in the autumn that they should all revisit Rome, traveling by different routes, and meditating on the form which the Order should assume.

Palestine had now been definitely, if tacitly, abandoned.

As might have been expected, it was Loyola who baptized his Order, and impressed a character upon the infant institution.

He determined to call it the Company of Jesus, with direct reference to those Companies of Adventure which had given irregular organization to restless military spirits in the past.

The new Company was to be a 'cohort, or century, combined for combat against spiritual foes; men-at-arms, devoted, body and soul, to our Lord Jesus Christ and to his true and lawful Vicar upon earth.'[159] An Englishman of the present day may pause to meditate upon the grotesque parallel between the nascent Order of the Jesuits and the Salvation Army, and can draw such conclusions from it as may seem profitable.
[Footnote 159: These phrases occur in the _Deliberatio primorum patrum_.] Loyola's withdrawal from all participation in the nominal honor of his institution, his enrollment of the militia he had levied under the name of Jesus, and the combative functions which he ascribed to it, were very decided marks of originality.