The Lives of Father Joseph Anchieta, of the Society of Jesus: The Ven. Alvera Von Virmundt, Religious of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Ven.

ISBN-13: 9781108033763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str.

Sebastiano Berettari; Caspar Peter Lull; Nicholas Frizon

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This book first appeared in 1849, during the renaissance of English Catholicism that followed the 1829 Relief Act. It contains three anonymous translations of early modern biographies. The first, published in Latin in Cologne in 1617 by Sebastiano Berettari (1543 1622), and translated here from an Italian manuscript version of 1670, focuses on the Jesuit missionary to Brazil Joseph Anchieta (1534 97), praising his 'talent and diligence in human affairs' and his 'heroic virtues'. The second, based on Caspar Peter Lull's account published in both Latin and German in 1682, briefly describes the life of the nun Alvera of Virmundt (1617 49) as a model of female piety full of 'virtue and perfection'. The third is devoted to the Belgian Jesuit John Berchmans (1599 1621), remembered as a 'holy young man', and is translated from an 1826 Paris edition of a text published in 1706 by Nicholas Frizon (d. 1737)."