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The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrata, depicting the Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola adoring the monogram of Christ in Heaven while Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci labor on the China mission "The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Giulio Aleni's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic ...
Ivan Vreman S.J. (1619-1620) - Croatian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician Andrius Rudamina S.J. (1620-1630s) - Lithuanian Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592–1666) - German Jesuit missionary and astronomer
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He Tianzhang SJ (Chinese: 何天章, 1667 – 11 May 1736), also known as Francisco Xavier do Rosário, [a] was a Jesuit missionary in Qing China.He mostly worked in Shanxi, where he contended against the restrictions on Chinese Rites.
Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J. (simplified Chinese: 郞世宁; traditional Chinese: 郞世寧; pinyin: Láng Shìníng; 19 July 1688 – 17 July 1766), was an Italian Jesuit brother and missionary in China, where he served as an artist at the imperial court of three Qing emperors – the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. He painted in a ...
The Jesuits of the Jesuit China missions made efforts to adopt Chinese customs. Here Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628) in Chinese costume, by Peter Paul Rubens.. Unlike the American landmass, which had been conquered by military force by Spain and Portugal, European missionaries encountered in Asia united, literate societies that were as yet untouched by European influence or national endeavor.
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Nicolò Longobardo (1559-1654), Chinese name Long Huamin (Chinese: 龍華民), was a Sicilian Jesuit in China in the 17th century. He arrived there in 1597, and was sent to the area of Shaozhou. He became the successor of Matteo Ricci in 1610 as Superior General of the Jesuit China mission. [1]