A new Cаthоlic оrder, the Jesuits, wаs fоunded in the mid-sixteenth century by [BLANK-1] – а priest who emphasized that his order should devote themselves to education and missionary work abroad. In addition to strengthening the Catholic Church and providing well-run schools for the sons of European nobility and the poor, the Jesuits succeeded in carrying Christianity to South and Central America, India, Japan, Brazil, North America, and the Congo.