The Jesuits in China and the Legation of Cardinal de Tournon
Subtitle: An Examination of Conflicting Evidence and an Attempt at an Impartial Judgment
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: March 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781402175459
Subjects: Asia,China,evidence,judgement,Tibet,jesuits,legation,Cardinal de Tournon; History / Asia; History / Far East
First sentence: THE indomitable resolution of the great St. Francis Xavier after he had completed his work in Japan, to introduce Christianity into China, resisted so long by the Portuguese authorities at Goa and elsewhere, and finally frustrated through the impediments thrown by them in his way, forms at once a mournful and an inspiring incident in the early history of missionary labours in the East, and gave a new and stronger energy to those who took up his great work, suspended for a season, only to be resumed by a successor his equal in zeal, but greatly his superior in learning, Father Matteo Ricci, a member of the same Society.