To defend the expulsion of the Jesuits, in addition to the traditional accusations, others related to the relaxation of their obligations in the conversion of the human groups where they were stationed were adduced. In this case, Palafox criticises the absence of Jesuit martyrs in their evangelising work in China. The fact that they did not suffer persecution and martyrdom was proof that they were not fulfilling the profile of the great evangelisers, who, in the face of the incomprehension and hostility of their hearers, had been glorified with martyrdom in the manner of Jesus. Behind this type of accusation, other accusations were included in the argument against Jesuit work, in this case the relaxation of evangelising obligations. According to these accusations, the Jesuits had allowed an atmosphere of heresy in which the Chinese continued to make their sacrifices with the approval of the order, and even syncretisms appeared in which the Christian God and Belial were worshipped.
Collection: Texts
Chronology: XVIII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/4632
Resource type: Historical source
Source: Carta del Venerable Siervo de Dios don Juan de Palafox y Mendoza al sumo pontífice Inocencio X. Archivo Históricode Loyola (AHL), sección 2a, serie Ia, n° 65 (estante 3, plúteos 3. Punto 158
Language: Spanish
Date: 1766
Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)
Identifier: Carta del Venerable Siervo de Dios don Juan de Palafox y Mendoza al sumo pontífice Inocencio X. Archivo Históricode Loyola (AHL), sección 2a, serie Ia, n° 65 (estante 3, plúteos 3. Punto 158
Abstract: Fragment of text in which Juan de Palafox reproaches the Jesuits for their lack of martyrs during their work of evangelisation in China
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