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Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Apostle of the Guaraní
Type: Text
Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Ganson, Barbara
Description: This essay highlights the accomplishments of one of the foremost Jesuit missionaries
in seventeenth-century Paraguay, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Born in Lima, Montoya
distinguished himself as a chronicler of the first encounters between the Jesuits and
the Guaraní Indians of South America. He defended Indian rights by speaking out
against Indian slavery. Montoya spent approximately twenty-five… more
Full Text: journal of jesuit studies 3 (2016) 197-210 brill.com/jjs Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Apostle of the Guaraní Barbara Ganson Florida Atlantic University bganson@fau.edu Abstract This essay highlights the accomplishments of one of the foremost Jesuit …