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- Title
Les desseins missionnaires de Pacifique de Provins pour l'Amérique.
- Authors
ROULET, Éric
- Abstract
The Capuchin Pacifique de Provins arrives in the Antilles in 1645 with numerous plans for the con-version of the Amerindians. Armed with his past experience in the Orient in the 1620s, he envisages the founding of a seminary for the missionaries and of schools to teach children the Christian doctrine. His aspirations run counter to the state of the powers in the islands, which has turned to the Capuchins' disadvantage. Nevertheless, he pursues his goals during the course of a final voyage to French Guiana in 1648, from which he will not return. Beyond his perhaps idealised vision of conversion of the Amerindians, Pacifique de Provins all the same succeeds in inspiring the renewal of capuchin activity in this area, and his projects will see fruition two decades later.
- Subjects
FRENCH Guiana; INDIGENOUS peoples of South America; CHRISTIAN missionaries; CAPUCHINS; CATHOLIC theological seminaries
- Publication
Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Amerique Latine, 2011, Issue 5, p129
- ISSN
1950-9510
- Publication type
Article