Quotes:Polanco, Juan Alonso

Zirkoff, Boris

Polanco, Juan Alonso. Jesuit historian, b. at Burgos, 1516; d. at Rome, Dec. 21, 1576. Studied at Paris; joined the Order in 1541; after further studies at Padua and Florence, he was called to Rome by Loyola himself, and became his secretary; kept this post until the death of Borgia, and was the right arm of the Founder of the Order, both in the formulation of its Constitution, and in the correspondence with the various houses of the Order. He gathered a considerable amount of data concerning Loyola’s life and the early history of the Jesuits, embodying his information in a work entitled Vita Ignatii Loiolae et rerum Societatis Jesu historia (in Monum. Historica S. J., Madrid, 1894-97; 6 vols.). This together with the 2 vols. of Polanci Complementa (1916-17) constitutes an important source for an understanding of the beginnings of the Jesuit Order.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 448