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It traces her rise through marriage, widowhood, and five years ruling Spain, then her private ambition to become a Jesuit. The narrative explains why her plan alarmed key family members, how Ignatius structured her entry as a permanent scholastic, and how absolute secrecy protected the Society’s future. Juana survives within Jesuit life as the sole known woman Jesuit.","A WomanJesuit  \nPortrait of Juana of Austria and a YoungGirl captures Juana,a woman of highambition who married at seventeen,waswidowed two years later,ruled Spain forfive years,and was a Jesuit.ArtistSofonisba Anguissola was a femalepainter of the Italian Renaissance.Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart GardnerMuseum,Boston.  \n# Secret,Perilous Project\n\nby Fr.John Padberg,SJ  \nPreviously,in the mid 1540s,Pope Paul IⅢ haddirected Ignatius to accept Isabel Roser and twocompanions as members of something like awomen's branch of the Society of Jesus,but thatexperiment did not last.  \nIn 1554,Juanad'Austria,Spanishprincess of the house ofHapsburg,became aJesuit.That story is notvery well known.  \nJuana entered almost ten years later.In 1552the princess,17 at the time,married the heir to thePortuguese throne.When he died two years later,she returned to Spain.  \nYoung,beautiful,and aware of her royal position and power,Juana was alsoendowed with a talent for ruling.While her brother,PhilipI of Spain,was in England ashusband of Mary Tudor,he made Juana regent.From 1554 to 1559 she was the effectiveruler of Spain.  \nJuana had an additional ambition:to become a Jesuit.Telling none of her family,sheinformed Spanish grandee Francis Borgia,an early Jesuit,that she wanted to join theSociety of Jesus.  \nThe idea was heaped with danger for the Society.Her father,Emperor Charles V,andher brother Philip would be furious with her and the Jesuits for wrecking possible futuredynastic marriage plans for Juana.  \nYet,the new,small,and in some places highly suspect Society could not afford toalienate Juana—depending in part on her good favor for its existence in Spain.  \nThe Society in 1554 had officially been in existence for only fourteen years,yet byIgnatius's death in 1556,there were already 1,000 Jesuits.Men were flocking into theorder enthusiastically.Women,too,were attracted and wanted either to found a separatefemale branch of the Society under the control of the general or to enter directly into theSociety itself.  \nThe first of these alternatives had been tried by Isabel Roser in 1545,who got thepope to write a brief allowing her to take the vows of the Society and ordering Ignatius toreceive her.In December 1545,Ignatius did receive her vows and those of two otherwomen,but the text of the vows carefully made no mention of entrance into the Societyitself.This so-called women's branch of the Society did not last.Roser had been a greatfriend and patron of Ignatius for many years,but after she took vows she made impossibledemands,continued in her own ways,and demanded interminable hours of spiritualdirection (more than all the rest of the Jesuits in the Roman Curia combined).In May1546,Ignatius asked the pope to dispense the recalcitrant Roser from her vows.As aresult of this failed experiment,Ignatius got a brief from Pope Paul III in 1547 forbiddingthe Society to take under its obedience communities of religious women.  \nThen came Juana.She wanted,and got,for herself not a separate branch of theSociety but membership in the Society itself.  \nSo perilous was the project that all existing Jesuit correspondence about the situationavoids her name,using the pseudonym Mateo Sanchez,or Montoya,instead.In aquandary,Ignatius appointed a committee to advise him.It recommended that Juana enterthe Society as a permanent scholastic;truly a Jesuit but forever in formation.Otherwise,with solemn vows,she would have been—according to canon and civil law—legallydead,dispossessed of everything,and incapable of ever marrying again.  \nWith the novel,simple,and terminable vows of a Jesuit scholastic,she could haveseparated from the Society if necessary.When Juana pronounced her three religious vowsas a Jesuit,absolute secrecy was enjoined on everyone.  \nShe could make no obvious change in her manner of life.So,for her,poverty meantleading a rather austere life at her already simple court.Chastity meant never marryingagain.Obedience—well,her letters show her sometime","cbCaikQWT509YD5E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikQWT509YD5E","pdf",216970,3,"English","en",105,"# Secret,Perilous Project\n## Juana of Austria’s rise and ambition\n## Prior experiments with women in the Society\n## Jesuit vows, secrecy, and the scholastic solution","[{\"question\":\"Who was Juana of Austria in this account?\",\"answer\":\"Juana of Austria is presented as a Spanish princess who married at seventeen, became a widow two years later, and ruled Spain effectively from 1554 to 1559. 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