RT Article
T1 “Against Muhammad’s Perfidy”: The Jesuit Francisco Combés and His Relación de las islas Filipinas (c.1654)
JF Journal of Jesuit studies
VO 9
IS 2
SP 180
OP 206
A1 Rosa, Alexandre Coello de la
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1786949822
AB This article analyzes the centrality of the Jesuit missionaries as indispensable agents in re-establishing negotiations with the Muslims of Mindanao and Sulu. In doing so, I discuss an unpublished Jesuit report: the Relación de las islas Filipinas (Manila, 1654) by the Jesuit Juan Francisco Combés (1620–65), which willfully conflated religious conversion with military intervention and conquest in the interests of securing a permanent base of operations in the southern Philippines. Spanish hegemony in the region was always contested. Therefore, Jesuit superiors strove to convince the civil authorities of Manila, and particularly the governor of the Philippines, don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara (in office 1653–63), to leave definitively the military strongholds in the Moluccas and instead to reinforce the military presidios located in the southern islands of Mindanao as the best way to stop the Muslim raids. Finally, the postscript analyzes the martyrdom of the Jesuits Alejandro López (1604–55) and Juan de Montiel (1632–55) as a propagandistic tool to cement the Jesuit contribution to the Spanish conquest and identify it with Catholic evangelization.
K1 Juan de Montiel
K1 Alejandro López
K1 Spanish hegemony
K1 Islam
K1 Mindanao
K1 Philippines
K1 Francisco Combés
K1 Society of Jesus
DO 10.1163/22141332-09020002