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The Apologetisch Vereniging St. Petrus Canisius (St. Peter Canisius Association for Apologetics) was founded in the Netherlands in 1904 to defend the Catholic Church against socialism and liberalism. Peter Canisius House is located on five acres of beautiful gardens and bushland in Pymble on Sydney's North Shore.
Petrus Canisius Jean van Lierde, O.S.A. (22 April 1907 – 12 March 1995), served forty years from 1951 to 1991 as Vicar General for the Vatican City State, and was the longest serving official in that position.
Saint Petrus Canisius (1521–1597), of the Society of Jesus, taught that while there are many roads leading to Jesus Christ, Marian veneration is the best. Canisius tried to show a practical rationale for Marian devotion and defended it against opposing Protestant arguments.
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Pierre Busée (Petrus Busaeus, Buys) (born at Nijmegen in 1540; died at Vienna in 1587) was a Dutch Jesuit theologian. He assisted in producing the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum and the catechism of Peter Canisius.
Petrus Canisius en zijn catechismus: De geschiedenis van een bestseller (2005) Gids voor de geschiedenis van de jezuïeten in Nederland, 1850-2000 (2006) Jan van Kilsdonk: Portret van een hartstochtelijk pastor (2008) with Ton Ruys, Adam Beckers en de herleving van de Jezuiëtenorde in de Nederlanden (2012)
Petrus Canisius – Peter Canisius, S.J. (Dutch: Pieter Kanis), (8 May 1521 - 21 December 1597) was an important Jesuit Catholic priest who fought against the spread of Protestantism in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Switzerland.
Saint Petrus Canisius, Dutch theologian, writer of the widely used Little Catechism; Doctor of the Church; James Carney, American missionary who ministered to peasants and left-wing insurgents in Honduras; John Carroll, first bishop of the United States and founder of Georgetown University; Paolo Casati, Mathematician, supported Galileo