Annales de la Propagation de la Foi. Recueil périodique des lettres des évêques et des missionnaires des missions des deux mondes, et de tous les documents relatifs aux missions et a l'oeuvre de la propagation de la foi. Collection faisant suite aux lettres édifiantes

Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Published by chez l'editeur des Annales, Lyon, 1853

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41 volumes, 8vo, containing 247 numbers spanning the years 1822-1869; contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; sone wear and rubbing and the occasional cracking of the cloth, but on the whole a good set with sound bindings. This appears to be the first printing of this edition, with additional material on the early missions that did not appear in the earlier editions. This edition not found in Streit. This trove of research material contains the Jesuit reports on their world-wide missionary activities in Asia (China, India, Malabar, Siam etc.) Africa (Abyssinia, Algiers etc.), the Middle East (Aleppo, Bagdad, Constantinople, Isfahan, Smyrna etc.), Oceania (Gambier, Marquise, Tonga etc.), including the American missions in Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky. Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Oregon, California, the Rocky Mountain regions, and Hawaii. These relations cover the Native Americans, the lives and privations of the missionaries themselves, their hunting, their travels, etc. in hundreds of letters by missionaries, bishops and priests.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Annales de la Propagation de la Foi. Recueil périodique des lettres des évêques et des missionnaires des missions des deux mondes, et de tous les documents relatifs aux missions et a l'oeuvre de la propagation de la foi. Collection faisant suite aux lettres édifiantes
• Publisher: chez l'editeur des Annales, Lyon
• Publication Date: 1853
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theology
  • Americana