The Life and Martyrdom of Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J.is a collection of official and unofficial letters and documents in addition to testimonies collected shortly after the death of Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J., the Jesuit priest who established the Catholic religion in the island of Guam in the late 1600s. This book captures both the life and events surrounding the death of San Vitores and a narrative of subsequent events in the Mariana Islands from 1672 to 1681. The scope of the book includes not just the four brief years of San Vitores' time in Guam, but another ten years of missionary work following his death. It offers a detailed description of the early critical years of mission activity between 1668 and 1682 in this earliest of mission fields in Oceania.
Scherffer's work, written in 1640, was the first German translation of the Latin elegies composed by the Belgian Jesuit Hermann Hugo for his extremely popular and influential emblem book "Pia Desideria." The translation is fully in line with the cultural patriotism and irenical proclivities of the court of Brieg, where Scherffer was organist and princely tutor. Herman literary history has emphasized Scherffer's special position within Silesian Baroque literature, stressing his affinity to the so-called 'low' style. So far however there has been no complete edition of his works. This reprint is the first to make a work of this Silesian author generally available again. The editor's postface provides information on the Latin original, describes the genesis and later influence of Scherffer's translation and situates it within the historical and literary context of the age.
Transkribiert und bearbeitet von STEPHAN PUHL (1941 1997) und SIGISMUND FREIHERR VON ELVERFELDT-ULM unter Mitwirkung von GERHARD ZEILINGER. Zum Druck vorbereitet und herausgegeben von ROMAN MALEK, SVD "C'est, en verite, un homme de premier merite en tout sens" - so charakterisierte der China-Missionar P. Francois Bourgeois SJ (1723-1792) in einem Brief aus dem Jahre 1787 den Jesuiten und Bischof von Nanjing sowie Administrator der Diozese Beijing, Bischof Gottfried von Laimbeckhoven SJ, dessen Korrespondenz an seine Familie sowie die Reisebeschreibung von Lissabon nach Goa den Hauptteil des vorliegenden Bandes darstellen. Die Briefe sind in einer annotierten Transkription und als Faksimile wiedergegeben. Die Reisebeschreibung liegt in der handschriftlichen Form als Faksimile vor, angefertigt - wie die Briefe - anhand der Originale aus dem Freiherrlich von Ulm'schen Archiv im Schloss Heimbach. Zusatzlich wurde die 1740 veroffentlichte Version der Reisebe-schreibung nachgedruckt "Der Herausgeber der Monumenta Serica Roman Malek bereichert mit diesem stattlichen Band die Missionsgeschichte Chinas des 19. Jahrhunderts.Das Buch vermittelt einen trefflichen Einblick in die Situation der Mission, als diese nach dem Ritenstreit und der Aufhebung des Jesuitenordens an einem Tiefpunkt angelangt war. In dieser ungewohnlich schwierigen Zeit versuchte Laimbeckhoven als Bischof von Nanjing das beste fur das Uberleben der Mission zu tun. " Willi Henkel in Bibliographia Missionaria"
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Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I’s treatment of her Catholic subjects, this volume highlights the European context of the English Reformation and Robert Persons’s role as propagandist. In De persecutione Anglicana, Robert Persons (1546–1610) graphically describes the conditions in prisons, the harassment of Catholics at home and the gruesome manner of execution for treason. The work culminates in the arrest of the famous Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion, with rapidly revised versions bringing the narrative up to date after Campion’s execution on 1 December 1581. Written in Latin to appeal to readers throughout Europe, it was translated into French, Italian and German, making it arguably the most important Latin martyrological work by an English Catholic of the Elizabethan period. This critical edition comprises the Latin text, English translation and commentary, and a textual history, appending additional material from the revised versions.Persons was actively involved in the drive to restore Roman Catholicism in England, as missionary strategist, controversialist and founder of English colleges abroad. He worked closely with the superior general of the Society of Jesus, Claudio Acquaviva, negotiating with Philip II of Spain, the Duke of Guise, the Duke of Parma and successive popes. Thanks to the growth of early modern British Catholic studies, his prolific and provocative English writings attract increasing scholarly attention, but his Latin texts have often been glossed over.
Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I’s treatment of her Catholic subjects, this volume highlights the European context of the English Reformation and Robert Persons’s role as propagandist. In De persecutione Anglicana, Robert Persons (1546–1610) graphically describes the conditions in prisons, the harassment of Catholics at home and the gruesome manner of execution for treason. The work culminates in the arrest of the famous Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion, with rapidly revised versions bringing the narrative up to date after Campion’s execution on 1 December 1581. Written in Latin to appeal to readers throughout Europe, it was translated into French, Italian and German, making it arguably the most important Latin martyrological work by an English Catholic of the Elizabethan period. This critical edition comprises the Latin text, English translation and commentary, and a textual history, appending additional material from the revised versions.Persons was actively involved in the drive to restore Roman Catholicism in England, as missionary strategist, controversialist and founder of English colleges abroad. He worked closely with the superior general of the Society of Jesus, Claudio Acquaviva, negotiating with Philip II of Spain, the Duke of Guise, the Duke of Parma and successive popes. Thanks to the growth of early modern British Catholic studies, his prolific and provocative English writings attract increasing scholarly attention, but his Latin texts have often been glossed over.