Copies With Souls: The Late Seventeenth-century Marianas Martyrs, Francis Xavier, and the Question of Clerical Reproduction
Although Ignatius created the template for Jesuit manhood, the task of modeling missionary masculinity for future generations fell to Francis Xavier as the first member to venture beyond Europe. This essay focuses on two late seventeenth-century followers of Xavier in the Marianas mission, Diego Lui...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 558-585 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBS Australia; Oceania KCA Monasticism; religious orders KCD Hagiography; saints KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Marianas
Augustin Strobach
Diego Luis de Sanvitores
Francis Xavier
masculinity
mimesis
martyrdom
semen Christianorum
printing
relics
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| Summary: | Although Ignatius created the template for Jesuit manhood, the task of modeling missionary masculinity for future generations fell to Francis Xavier as the first member to venture beyond Europe. This essay focuses on two late seventeenth-century followers of Xavier in the Marianas mission, Diego Luis de Sanvitores and Augustin Strobach, whom contemporaries characterized as virtual “copies” of Xavier with a twist: while the original Xavier longed for martyrdom in vain, Sanvitores and Strobach were able to shed blood for the faith. Their stories are set against the backdrop of the post-Trent revival of martyrdom and the Society’s need to keep generating new Christians as well as new missionaries to extend its reach across space and time. Print technology, which circulated images and stories of saintly exemplars worldwide and offered a cultural template for mimetic copying, was crucial in facilitating such clerical reproduction across the much greater distances involved in early modern evangelization. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00204002 |