"...important source informing us about the Fujian community...an extensive selected record of the missionaries preaching in Fujian during a period of ten years (13 March 1630-4 July 1640). More than twenty-five Christians participated...theological questions, a number of homilies related to moral questions" (Cf. Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 423)

Series: 明末清初耶穌會思想文獻匯編 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第9冊 .

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明末淸初耶穌会思想文献汇编 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第54册.

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陳善闢邪要務, 仁愛聖所梓行, 遠西耶穌會士馮秉正瑞友指示 ; 通會高尚德懷義, 雷孝思永維, 宋君榮奇英校閱 ; 值會戴進賢嘉賓鑒定 ; 從校後學任伯多祿付梓, 楊多默纂錄.
Keywords: God and Creation, fall of Adam, expulsion from the Garden, redemption, the soul, false religions, religious errors, merit and demerit.

Cover illustration: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Borg. cine. 381 (6)
明末清初耶穌會思想文獻匯編 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第22冊.

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Cover: The Crucifixion of Jesus from Giulio Aleni, SJ’s Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie 天主降生出像經解 (The Incarnation of the Lord of Heaven through illustrations and commentary)(1637), based on Gerónimo Nadal, SJ’s Evangelicae historiae imagines ... (Antwerp 1593).
Necrology: Rev. Edward J. Malatesta, S.J. 馬愛德神父 (1932-1998); Prof. Dr. Bernward (Heinrich) Willeke OFM (1913-1997). -- Michael C. Lazich: E.C. Bridgman and the Missionary Roots of American Sinology -- Claudia von Collani: Did Jesus Christ Really Come to China? -- Gail King: Note on a Late Ming Dynasty Chinese Description of “Ricci’s Church” in Beijing. New publications, Colloquia.

Pfister translates the title as “Leçons pour la congrégation des Anges” (p. 229, no. 6) and explains (p. 227) that Brancati had established a number of congregations in Shanghai and that “celle des Saints Anges, pour les enfants” was one of these. The style of this catechism for children is simple and clear. The questions and answers are well arranged.
The following are the contents: the six necessary things one ought to know in order to enter the church; the nature of God; the human soul and body; an explanation of the sign of the cross; an explanation of the Lord’s prayer; an explanation of the Hail Mary; an explanation of the Apostles’ creed; the Ten Commandments; the precepts of the church; explanations of the seven sacraments, of the eight Beatitudes and of the four last things.

There is no date or place of publication in our copy, but Pfister supplies the information that it was published first in Shanghai in 1662, and we think that the publication was made by the Jingyitang 敬一堂 of Songjiang 松江, founded by Brancati in 1641 (cf. Jap-Sin I, 102).

Cf. Hsü 1949, p. 476; Courant 6946–6959, 6960 天神規課. For another edition, see Jap-Sin II, 170.

Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 155-156.