Polanco, Juan Alonso

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Juan Alonso Polanco

Jesuit historian. 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 (BCW 9:448).

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• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Поланко, Хуан Алонсо

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