Black robes in Paraguay : the success of the Guaraní missions hastened the abolition of the Jesuits

Jaenike, William F. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781933794105
ISBN: 1933794100
Physical Description: print
356 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Kirk House, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-331) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one: the scene in South America; the Jesuits founding -- Why the Europeans went to the land of the Guaraní -- Who were these Jesuits? -- Who were the Guaraní before the Europeans invaded? -- Portuguese defeat French and Dutch in Brazil, introduce slavery -- Jesuit missionaries find danger at every turn -- Spain begins to settle Paraguay -- Spain occupies Paraguay : the middle years (1537-1630) -- What the Jesuit missions were like -- Slave hunters invade the Guayrá, desperate Guaraní escape (1630) -- Guaraní and Jesuits fight back, savage battle at Mbororé -- A rapscallion bishop persecutes the Jesuits for 125 years -- Jesuit republic's golden years of prosperity and growth (1651-1721), then civil war and a communist revolt (1721-1736) -- Spain and Portugal try to resolve their Paraguay dispute, Treaty of Madrid and the Guaraní War, the beginning of the end -- Part two: Jesuits are expelled from Europe and South America -- Portugal's Jesuits-the first to fall -- The enlightenment overwhelms France's Jesuits, they fall -- Spain turns on her favorite sons-the main event -- Jesuits expelled from Paraguay and Brazil -- Part three: Pope abolishes Jesuit order forever; it is rescued and reestablished -- Pope abolishes the Society of Jesus -- Frederick and Catherine : the great "heretics" rescue the Jesuits -- Epilogue.