The Reformation · 1542–1552
The Letters
Francis Xavier · 1506–1552
What it is
Letters from India, the Moluccas, and Japan on baptisms, language difficulties, the failures of Portuguese colonists, and his plan to enter China.
Why it lasted
The most widely read missionary letters ever written, and the documents that made Asia a live imaginative reality for European Catholics.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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