Conquistas na India em apostolicas Missoens Da Companhia de Jesus, soccorridas pelo ceo Com milagrosos successos, em crédito da Fé, e estrago da idolatrîa, até o anno de 1744 . . . e dado a luiz pelo Padre Procurador Da Provincia de Malabar, ambos da Companhia de Jesus.
£420
Lisbon, Na Oficina de Manoel da Sylva, 1750.
Description
Small 4to. 56 pp. Recent blind-stamped calf. Two ownership signatures on title p., slit in title p. & on p. 23/24 repaired, some spotting.
The author, a German Jesuit, left for the missions in Malabar in 1737 and in this rare work gives a fascinating account of the work of the Jesuit missions in present-day Tamil Nadu. He describes the difficulties and opposition faced by the priests, the persecutions by devout Hindus, he gives accounts of miracles, and of the invasions by the Marattas whose advances were repulsed.
Innocêncio XIII, 52. Azevedo-Samodães 1672, " Muito raro." Streit VI, 518. De Backer-Sommervogel IV, 1236. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa & the Portuguese in India, KF 36.
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