Topic: 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16th-18th Century)
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth Century, Catholic missionary endeavors across the globe produced a wealth of sources that shed light on various forms of sacrifice. These sources often intertwine factual accounts with the emphasis on martyrdom, adopting specific theological, narrative, and iconographic frameworks. This section presents a comprehensive collection of early modern printed sources and images that illustrate these dynamics. Additionally, it includes a thorough bibliography covering scholarly works from the 19th to 21st centuries, providing contemporary insights into the historical context and significance of these sacrifices.
Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum, a cura di Giovanni Pietro Maffei, in aedibus Decii Lachaei
Naples: apud Horatium Salvianum, 1573.
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16th-18th Century)
De procuranda Indorum salute. Predicación del Evangelio en las Indias.
n.p. [Madrid?]: Ediciones España Misionera, 1952.
De procuranda Indorum salute. Educación y evangelización
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1984.
De procuranda indorum salute. Pacificación y colonización
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1984.
De natura novi orbis libri duo, et de promulgatione Evangelii, apud barbaros, sive de procuranda Indorum Salute libri sex
Salamanca: Guillelmum Foquel, 1589.
Relación de varias cosas y casos, que han sucçedido en los reynos de Japón
Manila: Jacinto Magarulau, 1631.
Segunda relación de los mil ciento y treinta y seis martyres que ha avido en Japón
Seville: Luys Estupinan, 1632.
Inmaculate Conception with Jesuits (1720)
from: und schoenen Figuren, Franckfurt am Mayn, Johann Wolffen und David Zephelij
Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City
Visual and Verbal Sites: The Construction of Jesuit Martyrdom in Northwest New Spain in Andrés Pérez de Ribas' Historia de los Triumphos de nuestra Santa Fee (1645)
in: 'Colonial LatinAmerican Review', v. 8 (1999), issue : pp.7-33.
Priests of a Foreign God: Catholic Religious Leadership and Sacral Authority in Seventeenth-Century Tonkin and Cochinchina
in: Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World
Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Missions in Vietnam
in: A Companion to Early Modern Catholic Global Missions , pp. 269-302
Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Missionaries as Merchants and Mercenaries: Religious Controversies over Commerce in Southeast Asia
in: Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries), pp. 237-268
Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Capitulo 14: De sus Sacrificios, donde comoy por que causas los hacian
in: “Historia de las islas e indios de Bisayas, parte mayor i más principal de las islas Filipinas: dividida en dos partes, la primera natural, del sitio, fertilidad i calidad de estas islas i sus moradores, etc. La 2ª eclesiástica i sobrenatural, de su fee i aumentos en ella con el magisterio i enseñanza de los P.P. de la Compañía de Jesús (ms)”
: Ms, 1668.