Libro
Scars of Faith
David Atienza y Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Boston College
357 Páginas
Idioma: English
https://jesuitsources.bc.edu/scars-of-faith-jesuit-letters-from-the-mariana-islands-1668-1684/
At the end of the 17th century, the Society of Jesus
projected a martyrial ethos across Europe’s eastern overseas possessions,
places that were of extreme importance for the control of transoceanic trade in
the western Pacific. Scars of Faith offers a collection of primary sources that
deal with the Jesuit martyrdom in the 17th century Mariana Islands. Facing
repression and persecution to the point of death meant that Jesuit missionaries
were at the heart of the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness,
and God and the devil in the Spanish Micronesia. And for the Society of Jesus,
frontier missions such as the Mariana Islands meant a discourse of spiritual
heroes whose violent deaths helped to spread Catholicism at the margins of the
Spanish empire.The documents and letters that accompany this volume are
primary sources, offered in their original languages and in English, from
Jesuit missionaries such as Fr. Diego Luis de San Vitores, Fr. Luis de Medina,
and Fr. Manuel de Solórzano y Escobar.
These documents tell a gripping account of the Jesuits and their encounters
with the people of the Mariana Islands, including the native Chamorro people.
Scars of Faith traces Jesuit martyrs on the frontier missions of "the
Pacific" and their accounts of sociocultural clashes, violence, and
efforts for peace and evangelization.