The iconography of the first Jesuit martyrs of America.: The validation of the Jesuit presence in America and the action of the Paulist bandeirantes.
The first Jesuits to die a violent death in America were the Portuguese coadjutors Pedro Correia and João de Sousa, on a vague date at the end of 1554. The news shocked the Society of Jesus, based on the initial information of Fr. José de Anchieta, which he obtained from witnesses and raised St. Ign...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/31514 |
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| Sumario: | The first Jesuits to die a violent death in America were the Portuguese coadjutors Pedro Correia and João de Sousa, on a vague date at the end of 1554. The news shocked the Society of Jesus, based on the initial information of Fr. José de Anchieta, which he obtained from witnesses and raised St. Ignatius. Their deaths constituted in that moment the validation of the presence of the Society of Jesus in America, even if the history did not stop being used ideologically in different circumstances and times. Along with the writings and to complete these "surprising examples of sanctity", iconographic representations appeared such as that on the cover of the book by Fr. Pierre du Jarric (1610) and the traditional work of the Bohemian Matthias Tarner (1675), although far from the Anchieta story, but which served iconographically in different periods including the ceiling of the sacristy of the Bahia cathedral at the end of the 17th century and the church of St. Cecilia at the beginning of the 20th cen-tury. Therefore, with this work we want to highlight, with an emblematic example, the dif-ferent uses given to the images in different periods and according to such or such convenience. |
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