A Jesuit missionary in eighteenth-century Sonora : the family correspondence of Philipp Segesser

A Jesuit missionary in eighteenth-century Sonora : the family correspondence of Philipp Segesser / edited by Raymond H. Thompson ; translated by Werner S. Zimmt and Robert E. Dahlquist.

"In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands. Philipp Segesser got his wish when he was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. For the...

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Main Author: Segesser, Philipp, 1689-1761 (Author)
Other Authors: Thompson, Raymond H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Segesser, Philipp, > 1689-1761 > Correspondence.
Segesser, Philipp, > 1689-1761
Segesser, Philipp > 1689-1761
Jesuits > Missions > Mexico > Sonora (State) > History.
Jesuits
Segesser family > Correspondence.
Missionaries > Mexico > Sonora (State) > Biography.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Missionaries
Missions
Mexico > Sonora (State)
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Personal correspondence
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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