Francisco de Borja (Jesuit)

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Francisco de Borja; Painting by Alonso Canos from 1624.

Francesc de Borja ( Valencian ), Francisco de Borja ( Spanish ) or Francesco Borgia ( Italian ) (German Franz von Borja ; * October 28, 1510 in Gandia , Province of Valencia ; † September 30 / October 1, 1572 in Rome ) was the third general of the Jesuits and saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Francisco de Borja comes from the Borgia family . He was the son of Juan de Borja, 3rd Duke of Gandía , son of Juan Borgia and Maria Enríquez i de Luna, and his first wife Juana de Aragón y Gurrea (1492–1520), daughter of Alonso de Aragón, Archbishop of Saragossa and Valencia , and Ana de Gurrea, señora de Argabieso. He was thus a great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI. (on the father's side) and of King Ferdinand II of Aragón (on the mother's side).

De Borja was raised by Juan de Aragón, his mother's brother and Archbishop of Saragossa. In 1528 he went to the court of Emperor Charles V to enter his service. In the summer of 1529, at the age of 19, he married Leonor de Castro Mello y Meneses. ( Portuguese Leonor de Castro Melo e Menezes). The daughter of Isabel de Melo Barreto e Menezes and Álvaro de Castro came to Spain in 1526 as a lady-in-waiting with Isabella of Portugal , wife of Emperor Charles V.

After the death of his father in 1543, de Borja succeeded him as the 4th Duke of Gandía in the line of succession. When his wife Leonor died three years later, he renounced all secular titles in favor of his eldest son Carlos de Borja y Castro (1530–1592) and entered the Societas Jesu . In 1551 he was ordained a priest . His example caught on, and as a result many young rich nobles entered the order.

In the years 1554 to 1561 de Borja worked as provincial for Spain . When the second General of the Order, Diego Laínez, died on January 19, 1565 , the General Congregation appointed Francisco de Borja on July 2, 1565 to be the third General of the Order.

De Borja saw his task primarily in promoting the order in Central and South America .

Francisco de Borja died in Rome on October 1, 1572 at the age of 61. He was succeeded by Everard Mercurian . 1624 Francisco de Borja was by Pope Gregory XV. beatified and canonized in 1671 by Pope Clement X. He is the patron saint of Gandía and is considered the patron saint against earthquakes. His feast day is October 10th.

In his play El gran duque de Gandia, Calderón de la Barca thematizes the life of Francisco de Borja.

progeny

Francisco de Borja. Juan Martínez Montañés
  • Carlos de Borja y Castro (1530–16 June 1592), 5th Duke of Gandía . He was married to Magdalena de Centellas y Folch de Cardona, 5th Condesa de Oliva, since November 2, 1548. His son and successor as Duke of Gandía was his eldest son Francisco II Tomas de Borja y Centellas, 6th Duke of Gandía.
  • Isabel de Borja y Castro (1532–1566), married since October 25, 1548 to Francisco Gómez de Sandoval Rojas a Zuniga, 4th Marques de Denia, 3rd Count of Lerma.
  • Juan de Borja y Castro (1533–3 September 1606), Count of Mayalde and of Ficalho, traveled to Portugal and Germany as a diploma student. He was viceroy of Portugal. He was first married since July 7, 1552 to Lorenza de Onaz y Loyola (died September 14, 1575), daughter of Beltran III de Onaz y Loyola, and his second marriage since September 8, 1576 with Francisca de Aragon y Barreto (died October 19, 1615), daughter of Nuno II Rodriguez-Barreto.
  • Alvaro de Borja y Castro (1534 / 35–1580), Marques de Aranices, was married to Elvira Enriquez de Almansa y Borja, 5th Marquesa de Alcanices (1551–1596) since May 6, 1564.
  • Juana de de Borja y Aragón (1535 / 36–13 September 1575), married since April 20, 1550 to Juan Enríquez de Almansa y de Rojas, 4th marqués de Alcañices.
  • Fernando de Borja y Castro (1537–7 September 1587).
  • Dorotea de Borja y Aragón (March 25, 1538– March 25, 1552), nun in the Santa Clara Monastery in Gandia.
  • Alfonso de Borja y Castro (1539–17 March 1552), married to Eleonor de Noroña since September 29, 1567.

literature

  • Otto Karrer: St. Franz von Borja. General of the Society of Jesus, 1510–1572 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1921
  • Pedro de Ribadeneyra, Johann Jakob Hansen: The life of St. Francis Borgias. Paderborn 1891 ( ULB Münster )

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miguel Batllori: La familia de los Borjas. Volume 18 by Jerónimo Miguel (Ed.): Clave historial. Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-89512-34-4 , pp. 54-75, limited preview in Google Book Search
  2. ↑ Grandes de España-Gandía ( Memento of January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Miguel Batllori: La familia de los Borjas. Volume 18 by Jerónimo Miguel (Ed.): Clave historial. Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-89512-34-4 , pp. 54-75, limited preview in Google Book Search
  4. ^ Antonio Castejón: Borja o Borgia. Ascendientes y descendientes de un Papa, de un Santo, de un Valido (el de Lerma), etc .; Genealogy at euskalnet.net
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Genealogy of the Borgia / Borja (English) at genealogy.euweb.cz

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Commons : Francisco de Borja  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
predecessor Office successor
Diego Laínez Superior General of the Society of Jesus
1565 - 1572 		Everard Mercurian
personal data
SURNAME Borja, Francisco de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borgia, Francesco; Borgia, St. Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Jesuit, Superior General of the Jesuit Order and saint
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Gandia , Valencia Province
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1572 or October 1, 1572
Place of death Rome