Carta de mestre Gaspar que escreuio de Goa A los hermanos del Collegio de iesus de coimbra scrita a 13 de deziembre de 1548.
This abstract describes a Jesuit missionary letter dated 13 December 1548, authored by Lourenço Rodrigues from the College of St Paul in Goa, addressed to the Brothers of the College of Jesus in Coimbra. The document forms part of the official *Cartas da Índia* series—correspondence dispatched from...
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/PGXSZ4T9/viewer_PGXSZ4T9.html |
| Summary: | This abstract describes a Jesuit missionary letter dated 13 December 1548, authored by Lourenço Rodrigues from the College of St Paul in Goa, addressed to the Brothers of the College of Jesus in Coimbra. The document forms part of the official *Cartas da Índia* series—correspondence dispatched from Portuguese Asia to the metropole—and details a multi-vessel voyage undertaken between March and September 1548 from Lisbon to India aboard the *São Pedro* and *Nau Galega*. Key figures include Fathers Gaspar de São Félix (author), Melchior González, Baltasar Yano, António Gomes, Paulo del Valle, and Manuel de Marley; Dr António Gomes; and secular authorities including Captains João de Mendoza and Fernando de Sosa, Governor of Portuguese India, and Bishop of Goa. Locations encompass Lisbon, the Guinea Coast, Cape Verde, São Lourenço, Malindi (Maranbiq), Mombasa (Manca-biq), Macau (Macambi), Cape Comorin, Cochin, Cranganore, Calicut, Malacca, and the Moluccas. The letter chronicles spiritual administration aboard ship—including liturgical observance, preaching, confession, care for the sick and poor, and responses to storms—and subsequent missionary activity in East African and Indian ports, notably conversions among Brahmins (including Locu), German residents, and local populations, alongside institutional collaboration with Dominicans, Franciscans, and colonial officials. It records pastoral labours, disciplinary measures, interreligious dialogue, hospital ministry at Malindi’s *Casa da Cacaba*, and the early development of the canonisation cause for an unnamed Jesuit. The text is a primary source for studying Portuguese imperial logistics, Jesuit spirituality, cross-cultural encounter, and ecclesiastical administration in the mid-sixteenth-century Estado da Índia. Entry number 25 in catalogue "Jesuítas na Ásia" |
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