Livro do principio dos Superiores, e Bemfeitores deste Collegio da Madre de Deos de Macao, pertence aos Padres procuradores deste Collegio
This archival document is a late 19th- or early 20th-century transcription—held at the Public Library and District Archive of Évora—of a Jesuit administrative and historical manuscript originally compiled in Macau, likely during the 17th century. It records the succession of Superiors, Provincials,...
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| Format: | Manuscripts |
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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1751
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| Subjects: |
Apostolic Visitors East Asia
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Canton Mission
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China Mission
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Hainan Mission Reallocation
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Japan and China Province
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Jesuit Administrative Manuscript
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Jesuit Benefactor Records
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Jesuit Missionary Persecution
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Jesuit Missions Japan
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Jesuit Provincial Administration
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Jesuit Provincial Administration East Asia
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Jesuit Provincials
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Jesuit Superiors Succession
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Jesuit Vice-Provincials
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Jesuit Visitatorial Mandates
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Laos Mission
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Macau College of Our Lady of the Assumption
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Macau Jesuit Manuscript
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Évora Public Library Archive
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Manuscripts
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/ESS7GYH9/viewer_ESS7GYH9.html |
| Summary: | This archival document is a late 19th- or early 20th-century transcription—held at the Public Library and District Archive of Évora—of a Jesuit administrative and historical manuscript originally compiled in Macau, likely during the 17th century. It records the succession of Superiors, Provincials, Vice-Provincials, and Apostolic Visitors governing the Jesuit Province of Japan and China, as well as related missions in Macau, Cochinchina, Tonkin, Hainan, Fujian, Cambodia, Laos, Siam, and Shiab. The text details canonical procedures for appointment—including ‘viás’ (electoral successions), papal briefs, patents (*patentes*), and dispensations granted by Popes Innocent X and Alexander VII—as well as jurisdictional transitions, such as the formal separation of the Province of Japan and China from the Indian Provinces of Goa and Malabar in 1611. Key figures include Francis Xavier, Alessandro Valignano, Matteo Ricci, Nicolò Longobardo, Valentim Carvalho, Francisco da Veiga, and Alexandre de Rhodes; principal locations encompass Macau, Nagasaki, Funai, Kyoto, Beijing, Canton, Zhaoqing, Hainan, Tonkin, and Cochinchina. The document also chronicles foundational events, missionary strategies, political constraints, persecutions, shipwrecks, and administrative adaptations under colonial and East Asian imperial regimes, serving as a primary source for the institutional history of the Society of Jesus in East Asia. |
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| Physical Description: | 44 pages |