The Jesuits, 1534-1921 A History of the Society of Jesus from Its Foundation to the Present Time

CHAPTER X

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THE TWO AMERICAS 1567-1673

Chile and Peru--Valdivia--Peruvian Bark--Paraguay Reductions--Father Fields--Emigration from Brazil-- Social and religious prosperity of the Reductions-- Martyrdom of twenty-nine missionaries--Reductions in Colombia--Peter Claver--French West Indies--St. Kitts-- Irish Exiles--Father Bath or Destriches--Montserrat-- Emigration to Guadeloupe--Other Islands--Guiana--Mexico-- Lower California--The Pious Fund--The Philippines-- Canada Missions--Brébeuf, Jogues, Le Moyne, Marquette-- Maryland--White--Lewger 296-342