Vote One Jesuit

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Jesuits inside.
Decided if I'm going to bandy around terms like counter-reformation I should read about the actual deal, so I hit the web, and wikipedia.  And what would the counter-reformation be without Jesuits, intellectual shock troops of the Church in Rome?

Apparently Francis Xavier is the patron saint of Australia.  I'm sure he was great and everything, but it would be nice to have someone that actually visited the country.  Also he seems kind of a hog with India and China as well.  Wikipedia article seems to describe him as a disorganised backpacker type.  Who can blame him really, I forget my papal nuncios all the time.

Macau, as a Portugese colony, was a big scene for Jesuits.  Has a Matteo Ricci College founded by such.  St Paul's church has a painting of the 26 missionaries being crucified in Nagasaki .  It was a Franciscan painting though so it only had about 20 people in it - the Jesuits weren't included.  Bit of a rivalry there, looks like a real mystics vs scholastics vibe, kind of like the Taoists and the Confucians.

Oh yeah, vote for my article .  Did I mention that?
Permalink, Vote One Jesuit, Sep 2004, Scrymarch
monkeymind: May have been harsh: but japan is one of the few places in the world that managed to keep the Christians out.
Scrymarch: Yeah: No harsher than what the various denominations were doing to another back in Europe really.  Fraught business this religion stuff.
monkeymind: Fraught business this religion stuff: Agree. People seem to get so emotionally worked up about this stuff.

Not sure why...
cam: I am surprised Goa: ... was prepared to share their patron saint with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Borneo.

cam
monkeymind: You can thank me later: You\'re the straw that broke the camel\'s back!
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