The first Jesuit pope
THE JESUIT OATH
I now in the presence of the Almighty God, the blessed virgin
Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. John
the Baptist . . • and my ghostly father, the superior general
of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, do by
the womb of the Virgin • . . swear that His Holiness the Pope
is Christ’s vice-regent, and is the true and only Head of the
Catholic or Universal Church ... I do now renounce and dis
own any allegiance is due to any heretical King, Prince, or
State, named Protestant or Liberal, or obedience to any of their
laws or magistrates, or officers. I do further declare the doc
trine of the Church of England, and Scotland, and of Calvanists,
Huguenots, and others of the name of Protestant or Liberal, to
be damnable, and themselves to be damned, who will not forsake
the same- Ido further promise and declare that, notwithstand
ing 1 am dispensed with, to assume my religion heretical for the
propagation of Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and
private all her agents, counsels, from time to time, as they in
terest me, and not divulge directly or indirectly by word, writing,
or circumstances whatever. I do furthermore promise and
declare that 1 will, when opportunity presents, make and wage
relentless war secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants,
and Liberals, as I am directed to; extirpate them from the face
of the earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex, or condition,
and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury
alive those infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs
of the women, and crush their infants’ heads against the walls
in order to annihilate their inexorable race. That when the
same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisonous
cup, the strangulating cords, the steels of the poinard, or the
leaden bullets, regardless of the honour, rank, dignity, or
authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life,
either public or private, as I at any time may be directed to by
any agent of the Pope, or the superior of the Holy Father of
the Society of Jesus. In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate
my life, my soul, and my corporeal powers; and with this dagger,
which 1 now receive, I will subscribe my name written in my
blood in testimony thereof; and should I prove false, or weaken
in my determination may my brethren and fellow-soldiers of the
militia of the Pope, cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat
from ear to ear, rip my belly open, and sulphur burn therein,
.and all the punishments that can be inflicted on me on earth,
and my soul be tortured by demons in an eternal hell for ever.
In testimony thereof I take this most holy and blessed sacrament
of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my name
written with the point of this dagger, dipped in my own blood,
and sealed in the face of the holy covenant
(Copied from the “Divine Calendar’, Vol. 11., edited by
Augusta Cook, and published by Dank and Sons, 1916.)
Prinked by Protestant Publications, 110 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, and
-obtainable at the Protestant Truth Society (Mr. A. L. Sainsbury, Secre
tary), 15a Barlow Street, Sydney.
