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This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today's Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.
Contents
Introduction
The Arrival of the Jesuits in the Philippines
The Marianas as Part of the Universal Christian Project
Gathering Souls at the Margins of the Spanish Empire
To Retain or Abandon the Marianas?
Corruption, Greed, and Misgovernment
New Spiritual and Geopolitical Configurations
The Baroque Theater of Power
Lights and Shadows: The Virgin of Our Lady of Light
A New Foothold in the Nineteenth-Century Carolines
Twentieth-Century Jesuits at the Crossroads of the New Pacific World Empires
Chuuk
Yap
Palau and Pohnpei
The Marshall Islands
Conclusion
