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Biography of Gaspar Berse, 'the Dutch Xavier'
TRIGAULT, Nicolas.La vie du P. Gaspar Barzee Zelandois, de la compagnie de Jésus. Et compagnon du B.P. Xavier aux Indes. Ou les triomphes de la Croix sur les infidèles Turcqs, Sarrazins, Gentils, Schismatiques, Heretiques, Juifs, Athées, &c. En la conqueste d'un nouveau monde à la foy Chrestienne, soubs les estandarts du bon Jésus, en l'Inde Orientale.   Douai, Noel Wardavoir, 1612. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum, with ms. title on spine. Woodcut vignette on title. (24), 444, (4) pp. First French edition of the original Latin text which was originally published in Antwerp in 1610, telling the life of the Jesuit Gaspar Berse, or Belga, Barzeus or Bartz (1515 - 53), who preached in Ormuz ans Goa. Berse was born in Goes on the island of Walcheren in Zeeland, the Netherlands. After his studies in Louvain he went to Coimbra in 1546 where he entered the Jesuit order. In 1548 he was sent to India, first to the island of Ormuz and in 1551 to Goa where the well-known François Xavier, who would depart for Japan, appointed him director of the St. Paul's College of Goa and entrusted him with the provincialate of the Indian Mission. He died in Goa on October 6th, 1553. Nicolas Trigault was a French Jesuit, and a missionary to China. Born in Douai (then part of the Spanish Netherlands), he became a Jesuit in 1594. He arrived at Nanking in 1611, and began his missionary work there. He died at Hangzhou, China. Good copy with engraved ex-libris of John Drummond of Logy Almond on verso title.
De Backer-Sommervogel VIII 238, 4; Streit V 188; not in NUC.
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