Copia de una carta que escreuio de la Jndia el Padre Maestre Gaspar de la Companhia de Jesus alos hermanos deste collegio de Jesu de Coimbra, recebida el ano de 1550 y tresladada de portugues em castellano. 1549, Dezembro 10, Ormuz.
This is a transcription of a 1549 Jesuit missionary letter, composed in Ormuz on 9 October and authored by Father Master Gaspar of the Society of Jesus, addressed to brethren at the College of Jesus in Coimbra. The document comprises a detailed first-person account of Gaspar’s pastoral, evangelistic...
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| Summary: | This is a transcription of a 1549 Jesuit missionary letter, composed in Ormuz on 9 October and authored by Father Master Gaspar of the Society of Jesus, addressed to brethren at the College of Jesus in Coimbra. The document comprises a detailed first-person account of Gaspar’s pastoral, evangelistic, and administrative activities across the Portuguese Estado da Índia between c. 1548–1549, including extended residence in Hormuz (Ormuz), travel through southern Arabia (Arabia Felix), Malabar (Chale/Chaliyam near Kozhikode, Tanur, Cochin), Goa, and coastal East Africa (Mombasa, Melinde, Coena). Key figures include Father Master Francisco (Provincial Superior in India), Father António González (dispatched to Chale), Father Luís de Grá, Father Melchior Núñez, Father Bulano, and local rulers such as the Raja of Tanur and the sovereign of Hormuz. The text documents the establishment of Jesuit residences and colleges, catechetical instruction among enslaved persons and converts, sacramental ministry—including mass confessions and baptisms—disputations with Muslims, Jews, and Hindu ascetics (Yogues), efforts to reform usury and concubinage, responses to seismic activity and climatic extremes, and observations on religious pluralism, social customs (including satī and ritual self-mortification), and intercommunal cohabitation in Hormuz and Malabar. It serves as a primary source for early modern Jesuit mission strategy, cross-cultural religious encounter, colonial ecclesiastical administration, and the socio-religious landscape of the western Indian Ocean world. Entry number 173 in catalogue "Jesuítas na Ásia" |
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| Physical Description: | 32 pages |