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Apostolic Colleges of the Propagation of the Faith-Old And New World Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Kieran McCarty O.F.M.
Kieran McCarty O.F.M.*
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Academy of American Franciscan History, Washington, D. C.
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In the history of Spain's spiritual conquest of the New World, a definite cycle of enthusiasm may be observed. In the seventeenth century, for example, there was a noticeable falling off of Spanish missionary effort in the direction of the tribes yet to be converted. It is interesting to speculate on the causes of this phenomenon. An obvious cause, and certainly a contributing one, lies in the very nature of man. Human endeavor in the temporal order tends now to wax, now to wane in enthusiasm, and since the mission effort in question was human as well as divine, this cycle would tend to appear here as well. Around midcentury this problem of lessening enthusiasm became acute.

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Research Article
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The Americas , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , July 1962 , pp. 50 - 58
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1962

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…statuimus, ut praeter studia generalia, vel ordinaria, quae sunt in provinciis, curet Reverendissimus Pater Minister Generalis, quanto citius fieri poterit, erigenda quatuor Collegia, unum in natione Hispanica, alterum in Italica, tertium in Gallica, quartum vero in Germanica et Belgica; in quibus Collegiis doceri debeant, inter alia illae linguae et fidei controversiae, quae ad ipsius fidei propagationem, haereticorum aliorumque infidelium conversionem, magis utiles et necessariae fuerint.

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