The Jesuits exist in all Protestant countries [...] under other names. [...] who make themselves all things to all, to gain all to the sect. So those who would not dare to declare themselves Jesuits in those countries, deceived by the appearance of the emissaries, who occasionally even speak evil of the Jesuits, become Jesuits without being aware. Take England, for example, there they do not legally exist [since 1829]; nevertheless, they have not given up that country, and I assure you that they are more numerous in England than in Italy, [...] so there are Jesuits in Parliament, amongst the Anglican clergy, amongst the Bishops, and perhaps also in still higher circles [advisors of Queen Victoria]. There are Jesuits among the Protestants, and this need cause no surprise. [...] all things are pure to the pure; that to feign yourself Protestant, to lead Protestants back to the Church, is a holy work.
Desanctis, Luigi, Popery, Puseyism, Jesuitism, 2nd ed., trans. Maria Betts, London: D. Catt, 1905, p. 135.
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