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Vatican AssassinsTHE EXTREME OATH OF THE JESUITS.I, M____ N ___ , Now, in the presence of Almighty God, theBlessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St.John the Baptist, the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all thesaints and sacred hosts of heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, theSuperior General of the Society of Jesus, founded <strong>by</strong> St. Ignatius Loyola,in the Pontificate of Paul the Third [Paul III], and continued to thepresent, do <strong>by</strong> the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod ofJesus Christ, declare and swear, that his holiness the Pope is Christ'sVice-regent and is the true and only Head of the Catholic or UniversalChurch throughout the earth; and that <strong>by</strong> virtue of the keys of bindingand loosing, given to his Holiness <strong>by</strong> my Saviour, Jesus Christ, he hathpower to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths andgovernments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation and thatthey may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power, Ishall and will defend this doctrine and His Holiness’ right and customagainst all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatever,especially the Lutheran Church of Germany, Holland, Denmark,Sweden and Norway, and the now pretended authority and churches ofEngland and Scotland, and branches of the same now established inIreland and on the Continent of Am<strong>eric</strong>a and elsewhere; and alladherents in regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing thesacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now renounce and disown anyallegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state named Protestantsor Liberals or obedience to any of their laws, magistrates or officers.I do further declare that the doctrines of the churches of Englandand Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and others of the nameProtestants or Liberals to be damnable, and they themselves damnedand to be damned who will not forsake the same.I do further declare, that I will help, assist and advise all or anyof his Holiness’ agents in any place wherever I shall be, in Switzerland,Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland, orAm<strong>eric</strong>a, or in any other kingdom or territory I shall come to, and domy uttermost to extirpate the heretical Protestants or Liberals’ doctrinesand to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I amdispensed with, to assume any religion heretical, for the propagating ofthe Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and private all her agents’The Jesuits – 1540

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