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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 ...
Pages in category "Jesuit missionaries in China" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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
On 1 November 1700 he made the Jesuit final vows. [5] The Jesuit vice-provincial of China, Antoine Thomas, recorded that He was pious, religious, and acted with prudence. [5] After his fellow Jesuits had either died or taken other positions, He became the only missionary in the province of Shanxi by 1716. [5]
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 ...
Gabriel de Magalhães (Chinese: 安文思; pinyin: Ānwénsī; 1610 – 6 May 1677), or gallicized as Gabriel Magaillans, was an early Portuguese Jesuit missionary to China who was one of the first Catholic missionaries to reach Sichuan. He also worked in Peking and founded the original St. Joseph's Church there.
Jesuit missionaries in China (1 C, 76 P) Pages in category "Jesuit China missions" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Nicolas Trigault in Chinese costume, by Peter Paul Rubens, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628) was a Jesuit, and a missionary in China.He was also known by his latinised name Nicolaus Trigautius or Trigaultius, and his Chinese name Jin Nige (simplified Chinese: 金尼阁; traditional Chinese: 金尼閣; pinyin: Jīn Nígé).