Set in stone: Jesuit martyrdom at land and sea in sixteenth-century Brazil

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Figure 1 ‘Petrus Correa et Joannes Sosa.’ Pero Correia and João de Sousa are pierced by arrows. In Tanner 1675, 438. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Figure 2 ‘Duo fratres coadjutores.’ Two anonymous Jesuit co-adjutores, one shown struck by arrows, the other beaten by a club. In Tanner 1675, 441. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Figure 3 Anonymous. Salus Populi Romani Madonna, sixth–tenth century, tempera on panel. Rome: Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Borghese Chapel. Photo: Wikipedia Commons.

Figure 4 ‘P. Ignatius Azevedius S.I.’ Ignatius de Azevedo stands pierced by a sword and holding the Salus Populi Romani Madonna. In Tanner 1675, 167. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.

Figure 5 ‘Quadraginta Socii IESU, Duce P. Ignatio Azevedio, pro Catholica. Fide à Calvinistis in itinere Brasilico mari demersi.’ Forty Jesuits are thrown into the ocean from their ship. In Tanner 1675, p. 171. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.

Figure 6 'P. Petrus Diaz Lusit. S.I. cum 4 Sociis in itinere Brasilo pro Fide Christi ab Hareticis in mari demersus.’ Pero Dias is thrown into the ocean. In Tanner 1675, 174. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.

Tanner, Mathias. 1675. Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans in Europea, Africa, Asia et America. Prague: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae.

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