Jakob Rem [SEP] religious order
Jakob Rem
Jakob Rem (June 1546 - 12 October 1618) was an Austrian member of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic evangelical organization, and an early member of the Congregation of Marian Fathers. He introduced the phrase "Mater admirablis" into the litany.
Career.
Jakob Rem was born in June 1546 in Bregenz, Austria.
In 1556 his family moved to Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria.
He studied at the Jesuit secondary school in Dillingen. Soon after starting his university studies in 1566
he asked for admission to the Jesuit order.
He was sent to Rome, and on 18 September 1566 began his first novitiate.
In Rome he met the Jesuit leaders Peter Canisius and Francis Borgia.
He was a fellow student of Stanislaus Kostka and Claudio Acquaviva.
While in Rome Jakob Rem came to know of the Sodality of Our Lady, a Marian society that had been founded there a few years earlier.
After completing his novitiate, in the autumn of 1568 Jakob Rem returned to Dillingen, where