Abstract

Empress Catherine II ignored Pope Clement XIV ’s suppression brief from 1773 and preserved the Belarusian branch of the Society of Jesus. The article draws attention to three important events in the history of this group: the Napoleonic campaign of 1812, restoration of the Order worldwide in 1814 and expulsion from Russia in 1820. These events are documented in sources which are discussed in the paper: an unfinished poem by Jan Mihanowicz, SJ, entitled Podr oz XX. Jezuit o w z Po l ocka do p ol nocnej Rosji w roku 1812 przed wej ś ciem wojska francuskiego do Bia l ej Rusi ( The Trip of Jesuit Priests from Polotsk to Northern Russia in 1812 before the Advance of the French Army to Bela Rus ) and the diaries of Jan Galicz, SJ, Wygnaniec z Bia l ej Rusi ( An Exile from Bela Rus ).

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