Author: PLATEL C.P. (Norbert PARISOT - Le Père NORBERT ) :
Title: Mémoires historiques sur les Affaires des Jésuites avec le Saint-Siège , ou l'on verra que le Roi de Portugal, en proscrivant de toutes les Terres de sa Domination ces Religieux Révoltés , & le Roi de France voulant qu'à l'avenir leur Société n'ait plus lieu dans ses Etats....supprimer dans toute l'Eglise.
Description: .: 12. Lisbone ( Lisboa ) , chez François-Louis Ameno , 1761 - 1766, 7 vols in-4°, 25 x 19,5 cm (format of vol. I) ; 27 x 21 cm (format of other vols). Ex-library copy with some stamps , uncut copies, some pages a bit browned , a few pages with waterstains. Bound in half cloth with marbled boards, a rather shabby set. The entire edition should contain 9 engravings. In our copy 5 are missing ( mostly portraits). The map of Malabar and Coromandel is present. This is a rare book containing a vicious attack on the Jesuit order and especially their missiological activities. The first two volumes deal with exclusively with the Jesuit Mission in Malabar. The third volume expounds on the animosity between Jesuits and Capuchins. The author was a capuchin and in this volume he declares to have changed his name for fear of being murdered by the Jesuits . Volumes IV treats the '' Malabar Rite''. Volume V describes the ''rebellion'' of the Jesuits against Pope Benedict XIV. At the end of this volume and continued in volume VI and VII are published the letters by the Jesuits written from their Missions in China, Japan and India in which they respond to the accusations and in which they defend their policies regarding their missiological enterprises. Almost all the letters are in Latin but a French or Italian translation is provided for in the text. The author ends his work with the wish that a papal bull might abolish the Jesuit order. In 1773 his wish was fullfilled and this book played certainly a large part herein. .

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