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“Ti amo, non perché puoi donarmi il paradiso o l'inferno, ma semplicemente perché sei quello che sei – mio re e mio Dio.”

Francesco Saverio

Origine: Citato in Joseph Ratzinger, Gesù di Nazareth, traduzione di Chicca Galli e Roberta Zuppet, LEV – RCS, Roma – Milano, 2007, p. 195.

“Del Giapan, o vero Giapon, scriverò quello che per l'esperienza insino adesso habbiamo conosciuto. Primieramente la gente che habbiamo conversata, è la migliore che insin adesso si sia scoperta, et fra gli infedeli mi pare non si troveria altra migliore; generalmente sono di buona conversatione; è gente buona et non malitiosa; et stimano mirabilmente l'honore più che nissun'altra cosa; communemente sono poveri, et la povertà tanto fra li nobili, quanto fra gli altri non si reputa a vergogna. È gente molto cortese fra loro et stimanosi, confidando molto nelle armi; portano sempre spade e pugnali, tanto li nobili quanto la gente bassa, cominciando dalli 14 anni; non patisce questa gente ingiuria alcuna, parola di dispregio, come la gente ignobile: porta gran reverentia alli nobili. Così tutti li gentilhuomini reputano gran laude servire al signore della terra, et essergli molto soggetti. È gente temperata nel mangiare, benché nel bere alquanto larga: fanno il vino de riso, perché non ci è altro in quelle bande. Giurano poco; et il giuramento loro è per il sole: gran parte della gente sa leggere et scrivere, il che è gran mezzo per brevemente apparare le orationi et cose di Dio.”

Francesco Saverio

da una relazione spedita a Ignazio di Loyola a Roma
Origine: Citato in Pacifico Arcangeli, Letteratura e Crestomazia giapponese, Cisalpino, Istituto Editoriale Universitario, Milano, 1990 (ristampa anastatica autorizzata dall'editore Ulrico Hoepli), p. 8. ISBN 8820506505

Francesco Saverio: Frasi in inglese

“Almost from the time of Xavier's actual presence on the Coast, the work of legend-building began, and it came to be firmly believed that he possessed miraculous powers, which extended even to the raising of the dead. Xavier never made such extravagant claims for himself.”

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Francis Xavier

Neill, S. (2004). A history of Christianity in India: The beginning to AD 1707. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“The second necessity for the Christians is that your Majesty establish the Holy Inquisition, because there are many who live according to the Jewish law, and according to the Mahomedan sect, without any fear of God or shame of the world. And since there are many spread all over the fortresses, there is the need of the Holy Inquisition and of many preachers. Your Majesty should provide such necessary things for your loyal and faithful subjects in India.”

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Francis Xavier

Letter addressed to the King of Portugal on May 16, 1545. Joseph Wicki, Documenta Indica, Vol. IV, Rome, 1956. quoted from Goel, S. R. (1985). St. Francis Xavier: The man and his mission.

“Following the baptisms, the new Christians return to their homes and come back with their wives and families to be in their turn prepared for baptism. After all had been baptised, I order that the temples of the false Gods be pulled down and idols broken. I know not how to describe in words the joy I feel before the spectacle of pulling down and destroying the idols by the very people who formerly worshipped them.”

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Letter dated February 8, 1545, to the Society of Jesus. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (1985). St. Francis Xavier: The man and his mission.

“According to my experience, the only effective way to spread religion in India is for the King to proclaim by means of an edict to all his officials in India that he shall put trust only in those who will exert themselves to extend the reign of religion by every means in their power. The King must definitely order them to exert themselves with zeal to multiply the number of Christians in Cape Comorin [Kanyakumari] in order to attract to the faith of Jesus Christ the island of Ceylon, and to muster all the pious people, be they members of our Society [the Jesuits] or other that may seem fit for propagating religion…. If the King publishes such an edict and treats severely those who disobey it, a great number of natives will embrace the faith of Jesus Christ; otherwise no success can be expected.”

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Letter dated 20th January 1548, to Fr. Simao Rodrigues. quoted from Goel, S. R. (1985). St. Francis Xavier: The man and his mission.

“To a considerable extent the shape of Xavier's missionary work was determined by this threefold authority. Personally the most modest of men, his imagination was fired by the progress of Portuguese discovery and by the thought of lands and empires to be brought within the kingdom of Christ. He had not gone out to be the supervisor of a little handful of Jesuits in a small corner of India. His own temperament may have been restless; but there is a certain magnificence in a restlessness which led him to contain within a single glance India and the Moluccas, Japan, and, even beyond Japan, China.”

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Neill, S. (2004). A history of Christianity in India: The beginning to AD 1707. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.