Second edition of the Dutch translation of a manual on how to celebrate the feast of Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), the Spanish pioneering Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, translated from the original Italian by a member of the Jesuit Society. The text is generally attributed to Cristóbal de Berlanga. Included at the end is a laudatory poem on Xavier, accompanied by a plate depicting Xavier on his deathbed in a hut on the island Shangchuan. The other plates show the relics of Xavier's right arm in the Collegium Societatis Jesu at Mechelen and Xavier standing on a pedestal before a church, surrounded by a kneeling crowd who worship him, engraved after a painting at the Collegium at Machelen. The latter is followed by a poem explaining the image and describing some of Xavier's miracles.
With a bookplate on paste-down, a contemporary inscription of the Jesuit Society of Ghent on the title-page and an owner's inscription on the first flyleaf. Binding slightly worn, spine damaged at the foot. Overall in very good condition. BCNI 15722; Thieme & Becker VI, p. 205; cf. De Backer & Sommervogel IX, col. 1219.