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Portraits of the founders of the Society of Jesus and some of the most famous Jesuits, almost all of those for which exists a somewhat reliable depiction done during their lifetime. They are identified with their original names instead of the more widely known latinized versions they adopted - for ex. Ińigo instead of Ignatius, Pieter Kanis instead of Peter Canisius etc.
Discuss about the main phenotypes and why are they so nosey ? From this random search of the members listed on the wikipedia page it almost seems like having a long convex/aquiline/hook nose was a requirement to be admitted in the order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jesuits
Ińigo Loyola - Spain
Pierre Lefevre - France
Francisco Xavier - Spain
Simăo Rodrigues - Portugal
Alfonso Salmerón - Spain
Pieter Kanis - Netherlands
Diego Laynez - Spain
Nicolás Bobadilla - Spain
José de Acosta - Spain
Francisco de Borja - Spain
Alessandro Valignano - Italy
Matteo Ricci - Italy
António de Andrade - Portugal
José de Anchieta - Spain
Alexandre de Rhodes - France
Samuel de Champlain - France
Jean de Brébeuf - France
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza - Mexico
Samuel Fritz - Czechia
Manuel da Nóbrega - Portugal
Jean Amiot - France
Antal Andrassy - Hungary
Yves-Marie André - France
Jakob Balde - Germany
Augustin Barruel - France
Tadeusz Brzozowski - Poland
Edmund Campion - England
Pierre de Chardin - France
Johannes Baptist Hoffmann - Germany
Pierre Johannes - Luxembourg
Lev Lvovich Kobylinsky - Russia
Włodzimierz Ledóchowski - Poland
Péter Pázmány - Hungary
Denis Pétau - France
José Maria Pignatelli - Spain-Italy
Franz Retz - Bohemia/Czechia
Jakub Wujek - Poland
Roberto Bellarmino - Italy
Jorge Mario Begoglio - Argentina
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