From After Lives A famous exponent of Jesuit eloquence was Jeremias Drexel (or Dresselius), a Bavarian Jesuit who lived from 1581 to 1638. His specialty was eternity. He sought to dramatize for his listeners and readers the idea of everlasting punishment, using every possible rhetorical technique. He talks of a “stone in Arcadia, called Asbestos,” which […]![]()
