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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 ...
From 1597 until 1762, Jesuit priests entering into China would always come first to Macau where, at St. Paul’s College, they would learn to speak Chinese together with other areas of Chinese knowledge, including philosophy and comparative religion, gathering a body of knowledge that would lead to the Jesuit position in defense of the adoption ...
The Jesuits, or Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order, have had a long history of missions in East and South Asia from their very foundation in the 16th century. [1] St. Francis Xavier, a friend of St. Ignatius of Loyola and co-founder of the Society, visited India, the Moluques, Japan and died (1552) as he was attempting to enter ...
1767 – Spain expels the Jesuits from Spanish colonies in the New World; ... Columbans enter China; 1922 – Nazarenes enter Mozambique; 1923 ...
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).
The Empresa de China received a religious and political push from the Manila Synode, and in particular of the controversial Jesuit and diplomat Alonzo Sánchez, [10] [6] who visited the country in 1582 to confirm the loyalty of Macau after the dynastic union of Spain and Portugal. [10]
The Jesuits first entered China through the Portuguese settlement on Macau, where they settled on Green Island and founded St. Paul's College. The Jesuit China missions of the 16th and 17th centuries introduced Western science and astronomy, [39] then undergoing its own revolution, to China.
He Tianzhang was born in 1667 in Macau.His courtesy name was "Qiwen" (起文). [2] He was a second-generation Catholic, [3] and he studied at the primary school in Macau. [1] He joined the Society of Jesus on 28 September 1686 and underwent several years of Jesuit formation. [4]