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Black Robes in Paraguay (H)
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The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the Jesuits
William F. Jaenike
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This is a saga of the Jesuits who established elaborate mission communities among the Guarani people in colonial South America. As the Portuguese and Spanish colonists and slavers descended on Paraguay, the Jesuits sought to protect the stone-age Indians in their missions. The Jesuit resistance efforts contributed to political conflicts between the Church and the Catholic monarchs back in Europe. Under pressure from the monarchs a frightened Pope abolished the Jesuit order.
In the long, tortured history of the European colonization of the Americas, these Jesuit in Paraguay stood out as a breed apart, even from their fellow Jesuits elsewhere. Leaders of the anti-Catholic, anti-Jesuit Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Raynal rallied to the side of these extraordinary Paraguay missionaries. Raynal wrote that never has so much good been done for mankind with so little evil.
Ironically, the heretic monarchs of Russia and Prussia invited hundreds of the former Jesuits to run their colleges. In doing so, they inadvertently saved these outcasts to become the nucleus around which a reinvigorated papacy would re-establish the Jesuit order forty years after its abolition.
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ISBN:
1-933794-04-4
356
Pages
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6 x 9
Binding:
Hardbound
Publisher:
Kirk House publishers
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