The Jesuit tomb photograph collection / [photographs taken by Robert Ferris Fitch]. [18--]

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The Jesuit tomb photograph collection / [photographs taken by Robert Ferris Fitch]. [18--]

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Mounted on captioned scrapbook leaves, interior and exterior shots show the tomb's entrance and cinerary urns in its central cavern. According to a caption, two of these urns hold the ashes of Nicholas Trigualt, a Belgian-born Jesuit missionary and publicist who died in Hangchow in 1594, and of Maximo Diaz. It is possible that the name of Diaz is incorrectly recorded and that the tomb in fact houses the ashes of Manuel Diaz, a Portuguese astronomer and missionary who died in Hangchow in 1659. The photographs in this collection are attributed to the Rev. Robert Ferris Fitch, and were taken at a Jesuit tomb outside Hangchow in East-Central China before 1900. These photographs display the cinerary urns of both Diaz and Trigault.

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Fitch, Robert F. (Robert Ferris), 1873-

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Jesuit Missions to Hangchow, China, can be traced back to at least the sixteenth century. Nicolas Trigault was born on March 3, 1577 in Douai, Belgium. He entered the Society of Jesus at Tournai on November 9, 1594. After completing his studies, he embarked for the Far East (March 1607) and arrived in China shortly after the Mission's founder, Matteo Ricci had died (1610). Two years later, Ricci's successor, Nicolo Longobardo, dispached Trigault back to Europe to promote a comprehensive program ...

Trigault, Nicolas, 1577-1628

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Jesuits

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In 1534 Ignatius of Loyola, a Basque and former soldier, met in Paris with six companions to take a private vow of poverty and one to place themselves at the disposition of the pope. On September 27, 1540, Paul III issued the bull Regimini militantis ecclesiae, canonically establishing the Society of Jesus. The constitutions of the society were drawn up by Ignatius who submitted his work for approval in 1550. Along with working toward the spiritual benefits of its members, the aim of the order w...