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Father Angel María Rojas: Did the last Jesuit just die?

Father Angel María Rojas passed away on the afternoon of December 22.

He was born in Burgos, Spain, on 15 September 1940 and baptised the following day. An only child, he was brought up in a very Catholic family.

On his 17th birthday, Rojas entered the Jesuits, with his parents satisfied that "they had given God what they most desired." His father, a lawyer by profession, would have loved that his son would have followed in his footsteps.

Rojas suffered from poor health and struggled with insomnia and migraines. In 1975, he founded the Prayer Groups of the Heart of Jesus, with the aim of helping young people and later whole families to have access to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius.

His motto was 'To love and to make people love the Heart of Jesus from the Immaculate Heart of Mary'. More than 100 vocations resulted from his work.

From the Prayer Groups arose in 2003 a consecrated branch, the Apostles of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. They have their headquarters in Getafe Diocese.

Rojas was an indefatigable fighter under the slogan "always more and better, for the Kingdom of Christ."
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
He was a fantastic priest and Jesuit, by this brief description. There are not many left. As for the Order, they've gone from 36,100 (1963) to less than 14,000 today, and the category of Jesuit "brothers" is nearly extinct, less than 1,000 Jesuit Brothers left. There's only 9 Jesuits left in Greece, where Francis visited in November. Less than 100 in Ireland, Great Britian, and Canada. In Italy, …More
He was a fantastic priest and Jesuit, by this brief description. There are not many left. As for the Order, they've gone from 36,100 (1963) to less than 14,000 today, and the category of Jesuit "brothers" is nearly extinct, less than 1,000 Jesuit Brothers left. There's only 9 Jesuits left in Greece, where Francis visited in November. Less than 100 in Ireland, Great Britian, and Canada. In Italy, there are about 300, maybe 700 in Spain. USA has about 2,000, and India has the most in the world, at about 3,300 (but even there they are radical liberal and declining). There will be no Jesuits left in most countries, in another short 10 years. Fifty years ago, when the Jesuits were already down several thousand from their 1963-64 peak, a large group of Spanish Jesuits faithful to Catholic tradition and the spirit of the Jesuit Order petitioned Pope Paul VI to allow them to found a "Jesuits of the Strict Observance" Order to basically save it. Paul VI, being an ardent supporter of the radical Jesuit Father General Pedro Arrupe and his liberal agenda refused and considered it laughable. And the rest is sad history.
John A Cassani
There certainly aren’t many good ones left, who are orthodox, prayerful, and academically rigorous. The late Paul Mankowski, SJ was one of the last, true, American Jesuits. The Church survived for more than 15 centuries without them, and will live on after they’re gone.
Jan Joseph
Een van de weinige goede Jezuïeten.