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2017
This chapter outlines the less studied finances of Jesuit overseas missions in the early modern period, drawing from incomplete sources for Portuguese Asia and more substantial primary sources (and secondary literature) for Spanish America. It discusses several conceptual points: How did Jesuits and outsiders reflect on their wealth?
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This chapter outlines the less studied finances of Jesuit overseas missions in the early modern period, drawing from incomplete sources for Portuguese Asia and more substantial primary sources (and secondary literature) for Spanish America. It discusses several conceptual points: How did Jesuits and outsiders reflect on their wealth?
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2006
Abstract It was on the occasion of the first major mission to Egypt that the relatively young Society of Jesus started to play a leading part in the papal policy towards the Copts. Approved by the papacy in 1540, it was a society of clerks regular who took vows of poverty and chastity.
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Abstract It was on the occasion of the first major mission to Egypt that the relatively young Society of Jesus started to play a leading part in the papal policy towards the Copts. Approved by the papacy in 1540, it was a society of clerks regular who took vows of poverty and chastity.
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Jesuit Schools and Missions in the Orient
2013On 27th February 1540, the Papal Bull Regimini Militantis Eclesiae estabilished the oficial institution of The Society of Jesus, centred on Ignacio de Layola. Its creation marked the begining of a new Order that would accomplish its apostolic mission through education and evangelisation.
Manso, Maria de Deus, Seabra, Leonor
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Natural History in the Jesuit Missions
2018This chapter considers Jesuit natural history in the period of the Old Society (from Renaissance to Enlightenment). Five topics have been selected for discussion: a general, formal characterization of Jesuit writing on nature, with emphasis on works produced in the missions; the symbolic and material exchanges presupposed by the practice of missionary ...
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Jesuit Missions in Baja California
The Americas, 1967Whatever history may record about his personal life, there is no denying that Pope Alexander VI was among the most efficient and far-sighted of the Church’s long list of vicars. Perhaps nowhere is this fact more obvious than in the pontiff’s concern and zeal for the missions.
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