The dreams came at about the time of the smallpox, and signalled the end of some years of worldliness and lack of religion. At seventeen she began to change my life, undertook penances, and special...
Material Conditions of Writing
Catharine Burton
CB
, now a nun called Mother Mary Xaviera of the Angels, had a vision as she sat sewing in her cell, of her patron St Francis Xavier
, who bade me write, for the...
Textual Features
Georgiana Fullerton
Laurentia is another of Fullerton's historical novels, in this case written with the intent of providing a picture of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to illustrate in the shape of a...
Textual Production
Catharine Trotter
Biographer Anne Kelley
mentions particularly among CT
' other poems her congratulatory To Mr. Congreve
, on his Tragedy, The Mourning Bride (which was unfortunately too late to be published with Congreve's play) and a...
Timeline
15 August 1549: St Francis Xavier landed at the port of Kagoshima...
National or international item
15 August 1549
St Francis Xavier
landed at the port of Kagoshima in Japan as a missionary preacher.
“Japan”. Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy.