{"id":2563,"date":"2025-05-08T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/arthursattic\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:43:58","slug":"st-francis-xavier-jesuit-missionary-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/arthursattic\/2025\/05\/08\/st-francis-xavier-jesuit-missionary-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Francis Xavier, Jesuit Missionary to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you interested in Early Modern Japan, the history of the Jesuits, or 17th and 18th century books? Our spring quarter exhibit has it all! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map of Japan from Bernardino Ginnaro’s Saverio Orientale, \u00f2 vero, Istorie de’ Cristiani illustri dell’Oriente<\/a> <\/span>(1641), a three volume set dedicated to the life and works of St. Francis Xavier. The cover image is the frontispiece from this same title.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This exhibit shares A&SC rare book collections related to St. Francis Xavier, one of the founders of the Jesuits and first missionaries to Asia. It includes works on his life and ministry, but also the places he traveled, especially Japan in the early modern period. Although St. Francis Xavier\u2019s mission was most successful in India, many of the books on display reflect his and later Jesuits enthusiasm about the possibilities of continued Christian expansion into Japan. The main part of the exhibit features 17th and 18th century books from our collections, many of which are from the California Province Archives Collection<\/em> that was donated by the Jesuits to Santa Clara University in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was curated in support of the SCU Premodern Studies Program<\/a>, an interdisciplinary program for global study of the period from late antiquity to about 1800. It will be on display in the 3rd Floor Gallery cases next to the archives throughout Spring Quarter 2025 until June 8th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life and Canonization of St. Francis Xavier<\/h2>\n\n\n