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Slavery on the frontier: the report of a French missionary on mid-seventeenth-century Tunis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This document is a report sent in 1654 by Jean Le Vacher, member of the Congregation of the Mission, vicar apostolic of the Holy See and acting French consul in Tunis, to the cardinals of the Congregation for the Propagation ...
Venues for clerical formation in Catholic Reformation Paris: Vincent de Paul and the Tuesday Conference and Company
(Western Society for French History, 2010)
In the eulogy he delivered at Vincent de Paul's memorial
service in November 1660, the bishop of Puy, Henri Maupas du
Tour, praised his subject for having "virtually changed the face
of the Church by Conferences, by ...
Latecomers to reform? Catholic activism in the wake of the French wars of religion
(Studies, The Irish Jesuit Quarterly, 2017-11)
100 years after Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five theses, France found itself on the cusp of an extraordinary period of Catholic ascendency. From the violence and bloodshed of four decades of civil war came an age of ...