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Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Apostle of the Guaraní

Title: Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Apostle of the Guaraní.
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Name(s): Ganson, Barbara, author
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 2016-03-01
Summary: This essay highlights the accomplishments of one of the foremost Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Paraguay, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Born in Lima, Montoya distinguished himself as a chronicler of the first encounters between the Jesuits and the Guaraní Indians of South America. He defended Indian rights by speaking out against Indian slavery. Montoya spent approximately twenty-five years among the Guaraní indigenous peoples who influenced his worldview and sense of spirituality, which are reflected in his 1636 first account of the Jesuit reducciones in Paraguay, Conquista espiritual hecha por los religiosos de la Compañía de Jesús en las provincias del Paraguay, Paraná, Uruguay, y Tapé.
Identifier: 10.1163/22141332-00302002 (doi), http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22141332-00302002 (uri), FAUIR000019 (IID)
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000019
Use and Reproduction: publisher
Host Institution: FAU
Is Part Of: Journal of Jesuit Studies.
2214-1324