These were distributed as the General thought fit.

He stayed in Rome; for Rome was the chosen headquarters of the Society, the nucleus of their growth, and the fulcrum of their energy.
From Rome, as from a center, Ignatius moved his men about the field of Europe.

We might compare him under one metaphor to a chess-player directing his pieces upon the squares of the political and ecclesiastical chessboard; under another, to a spider spinning his web so as to net the greatest number of profitable partisans.

The fathers were kept in perpetual motion.

To shift them from place to place, to exclude them from their native soil, to render them cosmopolitan and pliant was the first care of the founder.