This thesis focuses on activity of the Society of Jesus in the town of Uherské Hradiště. It describes their missionary and pastoral work, construction of Jesuit buildings and homestead. The thesis also provides principles of the Jesuit educational system. The last chapter focuses on dissolution of the Order, resulting in new employment of the former Jesuits, types of which are also described in the last chapter. Key words: Jesuits, Uherské Hradiště, Education, Moravia.

Thesis advisor: Thomas E. Wangler / The story of the transformation of St. Benedict Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally a small Catholic student center, into a controversial and socially disruptive religious community is little known today even by most Bostonians. Some sixty-five years ago, however, the Center's public activities under the leadership of its chaplain, Leonard Feeney, S.J., were the focus of intense controversy and publicity, nationally and internationally as well as locally. In the 1940s, there was no clear theological consensus on the possibility of salvation for non-Catholics. Although there seems to have been a notable hesitation on the part of theologians and hierarchy alike in Boston to issue an official pronouncement on the Church's theology of salvation, there was at the same time an unhesitating consensus among them that Fr. Feeney's rigorist interpretation of the Catholic doctrine extra ecclesiam nulla salus ("no salvation outside the Church") was not that of the Church in the modern age. Complex social and cultural factors were at play in the controversy. Ultimately, though, any historian attempting to make sense of the ideas and actions of Fr. Feeney and the members of the Center is confronted with the fact that they took theology seriously, and so also must the historian who hopes to understand them. My thesis in this dissertation is that a uniquely explosive combination of theological developments, social flux, and intersecting personalities led to the eruptions at St. Benedict Center. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Anfängen der historischen katholischen Jubiläumskultur im Kloster- und Ordensbereich während des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem hundertjährigen Ordensjubiläum der Jesuiten im Jahr 1639/40, welches die Initialzündung für die katholische Jubiläumskultur schlechthin bildete. Im zweiten Teil wird die Verbreitung des historischen Jubiläums exemplarisch für die Klöster des süddeutschen Raumes untersucht.:I. Einleitung II. Traditionsstränge und Entwicklungslinien III. Das hundertjährige Gründungsjubiläum des Jesuitenordens 1639/40 IV. Klosterjubiläen im süddeutschen Raum im späteren 17. und 18. Jahrhundert V. Resümee VI. Anhang

The aim of the thesis was to introduce the life and work of Rudolf Dušek SJ, so far captured only through shorter interviews, and to use the story of his life as a case study of the persecution of religious orders and congregations during two totalitarian regimes in Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. These aims have been fulfilled. The research for this thesis revealed previously unknown facts and details, acquaintances and relatives have written down their memories of Rudolf Dušek, and a great deal of material has been discovered in the archives of the Czech province of the Jesuit order. The thesis is thus the most detailed existing account of the life, works, and thought of Rudolf Dušek. In the future, it could be published in expanded form for the benefit of friends and family and the Jesuit order, possibly offered for publication to one of Christian publishing houses in the Czech Republic.