39-539: Canisius may refer to: People [ edit ] Saint Peter Canisius (1521–1597), Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest Theodorich Canisius (1532–1606), Jesuit academic, half-brother of St. Peter Canisius Henricus Canisius (1562–1610), Dutch canonist and historian, nephew of St. Peter Canisius Aegidius of Viterbo (Ægidius Canisius), Italian humanist and cardinal Canisius Thekkekara (1914–1998), Syrian Catholic priest Schools [ edit ] Canisius College ,
78-576: A Jesuit college in Buffalo, New York Canisius Golden Griffins , the sports teams of Canisius College Canisius High School , a Jesuit private high school in Buffalo, New York Jakarta Canisius College , a Jesuit junior and senior high school in Jakarta, Indonesia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Canisius . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
117-743: A Jesuit secondary school in his hometown of Nijmegen and the alma mater of Peter Hans Kolvenbach , a recent Superior General of the Society of Jesus . Another Canisius University , a university, and Canisius High School , a secondary school, are located in Buffalo, New York . Furthermore, a Jesuit-run Canisius Kolleg can be found in Berlin, Germany. There are also two secondary schools named after Canisius, Kolese Kanisius ( Collegium Canisianum or Canisius College ), in Jakarta, Indonesia , and Canisianum Roman Catholic HS in
156-578: A book which defined the basic principles of Catholicism in the German language and made them more accessible to readers in German-speaking countries. He was offered the post of Bishop of Vienna in 1554, but declined in order to continue his traveling and teachings. He did, however, serve as administrator of the Diocese of Vienna for one year, until a new bishop was appointed for it. He moved to Germany, where he
195-589: A clear preoccupation with Marian veneration . Under the heading "prayer" he explains the Hail Mary prayer as the basis for Catholic Marian piety. Less known are his Marian books, in which he published prayers and contemplative texts. To the Hail Mary he added the sentence, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners , which was not at that time commonly recited after the Angelic Salutation. Eleven years later it
234-485: A married priest, to the office of court preacher. Canisius warned Ferdinand I, verbally and in writing, and opposed Phauser in public disputations. Maximilian was obliged to dismiss Phauser and, on this account, the rest of his life he harboured a grudge against Canisius. In 1547 he attended several sessions of the Council of Trent . Canisius was an influential teacher and preacher, especially through his "German Catechism ",
273-495: Is a statutory corporation (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts), operated by the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia . The university is divided into six faculties, which together offer 200 fields of study. The faculties are those of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, Law, Medicine (with the affiliated university clinic), Arts, Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Human Sciences . On 10 May 2023, Joybrato Mukherjee
312-665: Is a university in Cologne , Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 44,000 students. The University of Cologne is a member of the German U15 association of major research-intensive universities and was a university of excellence as part of the German Universities Excellence Initiative from 2012 to 2019. It
351-518: Is considered as representing one of the best theological achievements in the 16th century. Canisius was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1864, and later canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church on 21 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI . His feast day was included in the General Roman Calendar in 1926, for celebration on 27 April. In the liturgical reform of 1969, it was moved to 21 December,
390-624: Is constantly ranked among top 20 German universities in the world rankings. University of Cologne has 4 Clusters of Excellence; CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research, Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy, CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence for Plant Sciences and Cluster of Excellence Matter and Light for Quantum Information (ML4Q). As of 2022, among its notable alumni, faculty and researchers are 4 Nobel Laureates , 11 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, 7 Humboldt Professorship winners, 2 Humboldt Research Awards winners and 1 Rhodes Scholar. The university of Cologne
429-616: Is his three catechisms , which he published in Latin and German and which became widespread and popular in Catholic regions. In his fight with German Protestantism , he requested much more flexibility from Rome, arguing: If you treat them right, the Germans will give you everything. Many err in matters of faith, but without arrogance. They err the German way, mostly honest, a bit simple-minded, but very open for everything Lutheran. An honest explanation of
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#1732851683467468-727: The Catholic Church as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church . He was born in 1521 in Nijmegen in the Duchy of Guelders , which, until 1549, was part of the Habsburg Netherlands within the Holy Roman Empire and is now the Netherlands . His father was a wealthy burgermeister , Jacob Kanis. His mother, Ægidia van Houweningen, died shortly after Peter's birth. He was sent to study at
507-520: The University of Cologne , where he earned a master's degree in 1540, at the age of 19. While there, he met Peter Faber , one of the founders of the Society of Jesus . Through him, Canisius became the first Dutchman to join the newly founded Society of Jesus in 1543. Canisius finished his studies in theology and then was ordained in 1546. Through his preaching and writings, Peter Canisius became one of
546-574: The ARWU rankings, for the year 2022, the university was ranked within the 151-200 range globally and between 6th and 9th in the national ranking. In 2022, the university enrolled 48,214 students. 7,010 Students earned their graduate or undergraduate degrees in 2022. There were 5,265 students with non-german citizenship in the 2022 Summer Semester. The largest contingents of first year students came from Italy (10.3%), Turkey (8.8%), Poland (9,8%), France (6.6%) and Spain (5,5%). There are 613 professors at
585-910: The Omusati Region of Namibia, Africa. In addition, there is a primary school: Basisschool Petrus Canisius in Puth in Limburg , Netherlands. In 1850 the Canisius Hospital was established on the corner of the Houtmarkt and the Pauwelstraat in Nijmegen. In 1974 it merged with Wilhelmina Hospital located at the Weg door Jonkerbos in Nijmegen, to become Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis . The Apologetisch Vereniging St. Petrus Canisius (St. Peter Canisius Association for Apologetics )
624-630: The State of NRW, Karl Arnold Prize (North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts). According to the QS World University Rankings , the university held the 268th position globally and the 17th position nationally in 2024. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2023 saw the university at the 160th place globally and 15th place at the national level. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities , more commonly known as
663-547: The anniversary of his death, the normal day for celebrating a saint's entry into heaven (although it is still kept by the Society of Jesus on 27 April). In recognition there of Canisius' early work in the establishment of Jesuit education, there are multiple educational institutions named for him. Among them is the Canisius College for seminarians in Vienna , Austria, the first institution named for him, as well as Canisius College,
702-523: The dogma of "Mother of God" with numerous quotations from the fathers after the Council of Ephesus . He shows that Church teaching has not changed. He answers the sola scriptura arguments of Protestants by analyzing the biblical basis for Mariology. Book five explains the Catholic view of the assumption as living faith for centuries, supported by most prominent Church writers. From today's perspective, Canisius clearly erred in some of his sources, but, because of his factual analysis of original sources, it
741-804: The efforts of Peter and other Jesuits, it returned to the Church and is still Catholic today despite Communist persecution. By the time he left Germany, the Society of Jesus in Germany had evolved from a small band of priests into a powerful tool of the Counter-Reformation . Canisius spent the last twenty years of his life in Fribourg , where he founded the Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel , which trained generations of young men for careers and future university studies. During this period, Canisius's work "was translated into almost every language of Europe"; for example, his Summa Doctrinae Christianae (1554)
780-464: The faith would be much more effective than a polemical attack against reformers. He rejected attacks against John Calvin and Philip Melanchthon : "With words like these, we don't cure patients, we make them incurable." Canisius taught that, while there are many roads leading to Jesus Christ, for him the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary was the best. His sermons and letters document
819-477: The last year of his life, and interred in front of the main altar of the church; the room he occupied during those last months is now a chapel open for the veneration of the faithful. Canisius lived during the height of the Protestant Reformation and dedicated much of his work to the clarification of the Catholic faith in light of the emergence of the new Protestant doctrines. His lasting contribution
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#1732851683467858-597: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canisius&oldid=1147348511 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Peter Canisius Artists Clergy Monarchs Popes Peter Canisius SJ ( Dutch : Pieter Kanis ; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597)
897-584: The middle of the nineteenth century on German churchmen, including Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (1869–1952), considered Canisius as a new "Apostle of Germany", a successor of Saint Boniface , for his importance for German Christianity. The longer version (with quotes from authority): In addition to the listed institutions worldwide, there is Peter Canisius College in Sydney, Australia (suburb of Pymble at 102 Mona Vale Road). University of Cologne The University of Cologne (German: Universität zu Köln )
936-462: The most influential Catholics of his time. He supervised the founding and maintenance of the first German-speaking Jesuit colleges, often with little resources at hand. At the same time he preached in the city and vicinity, and debated and taught in the university. Canisius exerted a strong influence on the Emperor Ferdinand I . The king's eldest son (later Maximilian II ) appointed Phauser,
975-513: The new French constitution, many universities were abolished all over France. The last rector Ferdinand Franz Wallraf was able to preserve the university's Great Seal, now once more in use. In 1919, the Prussian government endorsed a decision by the Cologne City Council to re-establish the university. This was considered to be a replacement for the loss of the University of Strasbourg on
1014-638: The religion of the ignorant. By his debates, his writing and his teachings, Peter showed that Catholicism was thoroughly rational, that the Protestant arguments were not convincing. By his efforts, Peter won Bavaria (southern Germany) and the Rhineland (central Germany) back to the Catholic Church. He also won converts in Austria , Hungary , Bohemia and Poland . Poland had become largely Protestant, but thanks to
1053-754: The two Cologne departments of the Rhineland School of Education were attached to the university as the Faculties of Education and of Special Education. In 1988, the university became a founding member of the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS), today's Global Alliance in Management Education . The university is a leader in the area of economics and is regularly placed in top positions for law and business, both for national and international rankings. The University of Cologne
1092-509: The university have won various awards including Max Planck Research Award, Cologne Innovation Prize (City of Cologne), Postbank Finance Award (Deutsche Postbank), Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine (Jung Foundation), SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, Wilhelm Vaillant Prize (Wilhlem Vaillant Foundation), Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize (DFG), Alfried Krupp Prize for the Advancement of Young Professors, Innovation Prize of
1131-627: The university was composed of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences (successor to the Institutes of Commerce and of Communal and Social Administration) and the Faculty of Medicine (successor to the Academy of Medicine). In 1920, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts were added, from which latter the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was split off in 1955 to form a separate Faculty. In 1980,
1170-463: The university, 31% of the professors are female. Including the professors the university employs a total of 4,667 research assistants. The University of Cologne maintains twenty official partnerships with universities from ten countries. Of these, the partnerships with Clermont-Ferrand I and Pennsylvania State are the oldest partnerships. In addition, Cologne has further cooperations with more than 260 other universities. The University of Cologne
1209-718: The west bank of the Rhine , which contemporaneously reverted to France with the rest of Alsace. On 29 May 1919, the Cologne Mayor Konrad Adenauer signed the charter of the modern university. At that point, the new university was located in Neustadt-Süd , but relocated to its current campus in Lindenthal on 2 November 1934. The old premises are now being used for the Cologne University of Applied Sciences . Initially,
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1248-503: Was a Dutch Jesuit priest . He became known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany , Austria , Bohemia , Moravia , Switzerland and the British Isles . The restoration of the Catholic Church in Germany after the Protestant Reformation is largely attributed to the work there of the Society of Jesus, which he led. He is venerated in
1287-589: Was elected as Rector of the University . The University of Cologne is member of the association German U15 e.V. which is a coalition of fifteen major research-intensive and leading medical universities in Germany with a full disciplinary spectrum. Especially the faculties of law and economics are renowned and leading in Germany. Leading researchers are affiliated to Cologne: e.g., Angelika Nußberger, Thomas von Danwitz, Claus Kreß, Martin Henssler, Ulrich Preis, Heinz-Peter Mansel. Apart from these, affiliated persons with
1326-656: Was established in 1388 as the fourth university in the Holy Roman Empire , after the Charles University of Prague (1348), the University of Vienna (1365) and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (1386). The charter was signed by Pope Urban VI . The university began teaching on 6 January 1389, and operated for several hundred years. In 1798, the university was abolished by the French First Republic , who had invaded Cologne in 1794, because under
1365-558: Was founded in the Netherlands in 1904 to defend the Catholic Church against socialism and liberalism . Peter Canisius House is located on five acres of beautiful gardens and bushland in Pymble on Sydney's North Shore. Facilities include 43 bedrooms, a variety of meeting spaces and a large dining room. The House specialise in residential individual and group retreats and gatherings for schools, not for profit and private business sectors. From
1404-517: Was included in the Catechism of the Council of Trent of 1566. Canisius published an applied Mariology for preachers, in which Mary is described in tender and warm words. He actively promoted the sodalities of our Lady and the rosary associations. Theologically, Canisius defended Catholic Mariology in his 1577 book, De Maria Virgine Incomparabili et Dei Genitrice Sacrosancta Libri Quinque . The book
1443-658: Was one of the main Catholic theologians at the Colloquy of Worms in 1557, and later served as the main preacher in the Cathedral of Augsburg from 1559 to 1568, where he strongly witnessed to his faith on three or four occasions each week. Canisius was renowned as a popular preacher. In 1562 he founded what was to become the University of Innsbruck . In Christ The King – Lord of History by Anne W. Carroll, it states: Protestantism had made much headway in Germany because many intellectuals had adopted it, making Catholicism appear to be
1482-583: Was ordered by Pope Pius V to present a factual presentation of the Catholic Marian teachings in the Bible, the early Christians, the Church Fathers and contemporary theology. Canisius explains and documents Church teachings through the ages regarding the person and character of Mary, her virtues and youth. He traces historical documents about the perpetual virginity of Mary, and her freedom from sin. He explains
1521-584: Was translated into Scots by Adam King and published in 1588. In 1591, at the age of 70, Canisius suffered a stroke which left him partially paralyzed, but he continued to preach and write with the aid of a secretary until his death in Fribourg. He was initially buried at the Church of St. Nicholas . His remains were later transferred to the church of the Jesuit College , which he had founded and where he had spent
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