| Résumé: | After the slow and complex process of expelling the Company of Jesus (1767-1768), many wise-guys passed off as Jesuits, taking advantage of the fervor of New Spain's population. This work analyzes several cases of false priests, in the context of many such attempts of the expelled to return to New Spain, and the context also of the evolution of the diseased Ignatians who remained in the city of Puebla. All of these priests, true and false, produced the feeling in Mexico that the void left by the expelling of the Company was not so great, besides the fact that its devotees remembered them by adoring Jesuit saints and praying for their return. As this work shows, there was always at least one Jesuit during the years of Suppression (1767-1816); although it is a small number, it allows us to understand this intermediate period in a whole new way.
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