GERMANY, 1956, the 8th centenary of the Abbey,
Scott 747
The Benedictine Maria Laach Abbey (Abbatia Beatæ Mariae Virginis ad lacum) was dissolved by secularization in 1802, and was bought by the Jesuits in January 1863. It became a college, a house of writers, a place of learned meetings. Students of philosophy came from Aachen, the theologians came from Paderborn. By the end of the year more than 175 Jesuits lived here. Jesuits here produced seven volumes of the Collectio Lacensis (Decrees of the Councils), the Philosophia Lacensis library, the learned publication Stimmen aus Maria-Laach which has been called the Stimmen der Zeit since 1914. In 1865 a vault was built under the St Joseph Chapel where the bodies of 14 Jesuits still rest. However, during the Kulturkampf, on 5 July 1872, the Jesuits were expelled. The Society returned the Abbey to the Benedictines in 1892. More
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Jesuit Church and College, Ellwangen
WUERTTEMBERG, 1920, Scott O-169, O-173
The Jesuit Church and College at Ellwangen have now both passed into other hands, but they may be seen on these stamps to the left of the famous shrine of Our Lady of Loretto and below the word Volksstaat.
The Jesuit High School, Ingolstadt
GERMANY, 2006, the 12th centenary of Ingolstadt
Jesuits, including Peter Canisius, came to Ingolstadt in 1549 and began the instruction of youth, but left in 1552 when the college promised them by Duke Wilhelm V was not realized. But the building in which they taught from 1549 to 1552 appears on the above stamp, — the red triangular roof bisected by a tower. They returned in 1556 having made new arrangements with Wilhelm's successor, Duke Albrecht and founded a gymnasium (high school), and in 1576 Albrecht established the Jesuit college. The Jesuit mission in Ingolstadt lasted until the Suppression in 1773.
