Aloysius Centurione

Visconti kept him in Rome as Assistant for the Italian affairs and left a note to make him the Vicar General after his death.

[citation needed] Earlier, as decreed by the General Congregation that elected him, Centurione had written a letter on the 'True spirit of the Society'.

Clearly, there were troubled times ahead and Centurione felt that the spiritual life of his men had to be fortified in order to better face the coming storm.

The troubles caused by father Antoine de La Valette's risky commercial activities and the inept handling of his bankruptcy by the French Jesuits further complicated matters for Centurione and increased the group of those who felt that the Society was beyond reform.

[citation needed] Yet, his affability and strength of character, not giving in to threat nor allowing himself or others to go for retaliatory moves, somehow – unknowingly – prepared his Jesuit companions to adopt the right attitude for what would happen in 1773, the suppression of the Society of Jesus.