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Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) was a Jesuit monk who received art training in Italy and traveled to China at the invitation of the emperor. His work achieved a unique East-west fusion. More: https://t.co/vBihVTLn1d

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2020-10-12

18th-c painting of Manchu emperor Qianlong hunting a Manchurian/Amur tiger, by Giuseppe Castiglione, a Jesuit missionary who failed to convert the emperor but became his favorite court painter. Just ordered this lovely stamp of the now endangered big cat: https://t.co/WH04tv9N7X

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2020-08-15

Happy Feast day to one of the greats & to all my friends 🥳✨❤️

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2020-07-31

28 June 1592: After more torture, St. Robert Southwell and is moved to the Gatehouse

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2020-06-28

25 June 1592: Robert Southwell & poet is arrested at night at Uxenden near Harrow. He was taken first to Richard Topcliffe's house where he was tortured. Executed on 21 Feb 1595.

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2020-06-25

Hi I'm a free libertarian anarchist Jesuit and real estate manager since age 7.

Jk I'm just an artist. 👉👈😌

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2020-06-22

La Passarola, un curioso proyecto para una máquina voladora presentado por el jesuita Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão al rey de Portugal en 1709.

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2020-06-15

10 June 1576: St. Robert Southwell, poet, future martyr in 1595 enters the College, Douay (BM)

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2020-06-10

31 May 1568: Robert Persons, future & leader of English mission, graduates BA at Balliol (BM)

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2020-05-31

Last week we visited Mexico in 18th century, today we invite you to Crimea. The manuscript of a Jesuit missionary contains a report on a mission to the Crimea with illustrations of the life of Tatar population at the time (VIII H 75). We were interested in depiction of a yurt.

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2020-05-26

22nd May is the International Day for Biological Diversity ... The manuscript of the Codex Mexicanus National Library CZ XVI B 18 by Jesuit Ignatius Tirsch says a lot in this regard. He captured Mexican nature in second half of 18th century, while much has not been preserved.

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2020-05-22

22nd May is the International Day for Biological Diversity ... The manuscript of the Codex Mexicanus XVI B 18 by the Jesuit Ignatius Tirsch says a lot in this regard. He captured Mexican nature in the second half of the 18th century, while much has not been preserved.

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2020-05-22

OSP | Along with other four Jesuit tertiary Ateneo schools, OBA serves as a unifying body creating plans and voicing concerns to engage students to participate in the formation of the nation. 🇵🇭

Be part of the Office of the Buklod Ambassador!
⚡️ ♾

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2020-05-04

2 May 1586: General Claudio Acquaviva gives Robert Southwell (executed 1595) & Henry Garnett (executed 1606) licence to go to

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2020-05-02

May 2, 1602, birthday of German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher. He imagined Earth's section in his "Mundus Subterraneus" (1664-1665) as crossed by veins of water and fire 🌋https://t.co/vK3ih5B9Fu

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2020-05-02

1896: 1st x-ray taken in Ireland in De La Salle College in city, by Michael Francis O’Reilly/Brother Potamian (discovered by German Wilhelm Röntgen). Born in Co in 1847 in Famine so emigrated. Entered Jesuit Novitiate in Montreal, Canada.🏥

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2020-04-13

19 Mar 1637: d. Cardinal Peter Pazmany primate of , orator, writer Buried in

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2020-03-20

Bernardo Bitti (1548–Peru 1610) was an Italian Jesuit and painter.

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2020-03-04

[Flora Sinensis(中國植物誌) ] is one of the first European natural history books about China, published in Vienna in 1656. Its author, Michael Boym, was a Jesuit missionary from Poland.
作者卜彌格 (Michel Boym, 1612-1659)曾受永曆皇太後之托出使羅馬，在中國天主教史佔有重要地位。

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2020-02-12