Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Very Rev. Giovanni Paolo Oliva, S.J. (4 October 1600 – 26 November 1681) was an Italian Jesuit priest, elected 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus.Oliva was born at Genoa in 1600, and in 1616, he entered the Society of Jesus. A famous pulpit orator, he was Apostolic Preacher of the Palace under Popes Innocent X, Alexander VII, Clement IX, and Clement X. In 1661, during the critical period of the Superior General Goschwin Nickel, the General Congregation XI elected him vicar-general with the right of succession. His chief aim was to remove all causes of dissension and of personal friction between his institute and other religious orders, towards which he showed himself most reverent and yielding. He extended and increased the missions, creating new ones outside of Europe, especially in Japan.His book of forty-odd sermons for Lent, and his work of six folio volumes, In Selecta Scripturæ Loca Ethicæ Commentationes, demonstrate his scholarship and piety. Remembering what had happened to Cardinal Palavicino, Oliva printed one thousand of his letters, in order that they might not be printed by others and be misconstrued. He died at Rome, at Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in 1681."@en }
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- Giovanni_Paolo_Oliva abstract "Very Rev. Giovanni Paolo Oliva, S.J. (4 October 1600 – 26 November 1681) was an Italian Jesuit priest, elected 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus.Oliva was born at Genoa in 1600, and in 1616, he entered the Society of Jesus. A famous pulpit orator, he was Apostolic Preacher of the Palace under Popes Innocent X, Alexander VII, Clement IX, and Clement X. In 1661, during the critical period of the Superior General Goschwin Nickel, the General Congregation XI elected him vicar-general with the right of succession. His chief aim was to remove all causes of dissension and of personal friction between his institute and other religious orders, towards which he showed himself most reverent and yielding. He extended and increased the missions, creating new ones outside of Europe, especially in Japan.His book of forty-odd sermons for Lent, and his work of six folio volumes, In Selecta Scripturæ Loca Ethicæ Commentationes, demonstrate his scholarship and piety. Remembering what had happened to Cardinal Palavicino, Oliva printed one thousand of his letters, in order that they might not be printed by others and be misconstrued. He died at Rome, at Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in 1681.".
- Q1229189 abstract "Very Rev. Giovanni Paolo Oliva, S.J. (4 October 1600 – 26 November 1681) was an Italian Jesuit priest, elected 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus.Oliva was born at Genoa in 1600, and in 1616, he entered the Society of Jesus. A famous pulpit orator, he was Apostolic Preacher of the Palace under Popes Innocent X, Alexander VII, Clement IX, and Clement X. In 1661, during the critical period of the Superior General Goschwin Nickel, the General Congregation XI elected him vicar-general with the right of succession. His chief aim was to remove all causes of dissension and of personal friction between his institute and other religious orders, towards which he showed himself most reverent and yielding. He extended and increased the missions, creating new ones outside of Europe, especially in Japan.His book of forty-odd sermons for Lent, and his work of six folio volumes, In Selecta Scripturæ Loca Ethicæ Commentationes, demonstrate his scholarship and piety. Remembering what had happened to Cardinal Palavicino, Oliva printed one thousand of his letters, in order that they might not be printed by others and be misconstrued. He died at Rome, at Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in 1681.".