Scope and Contents Records of the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide comprise this collection of letter copy-books and related manuscripts which shed important light on Catholic missionary activities in China, the Philippines, and South Asia in the first half of the 18th century.The principal Jesuit interest in the collection resides in the record of the ongoing dispute over the Chinese Rites and repeated attempts to obtain unconditional obedience from the Jesuits. Letters to the head of the...

Scope and Contents Materie divers. M.S. (shelfmark CCXLIII)1 bound volume of manuscripts, reports, letter copies, and printed matter. These include an unpublished biography of Confucius, "Vita Confusii Philosophi Apud Sinensis Sapientissimi ac Sanctissimi Magistri", by the Franciscan missionary Fr. Carolus Horatii á Castorano (Carlo Orazi da Castorano), OFM, a significant opponent of the Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy, as well as a report of Jesuit martyrdom in Vietnam, "Relazione della...