In the beginning Spaniards looked to the New World as an area for empire building (Calloway‚ 2012). Missions were to convert/conform the indigenous population to Christianity and servitude to the Spanish empire‚ while increasing imports and exports of trade goods that would increase the power...
King Philip II wanted to prevent a repeat of the brutal conquests in the Americas that belied Spanish attempts to legitimate its colonial enterprise in the name of Christianity. The Manila Synod of 1582 formulated a novel theory upon which Spain staked its legal claim to sovereignty over the ...
Spread of Christianity in the Philippines Mass Baptism - Baptizing the Filipinos is very large groups at once. It is said that the Filipinos interpreted Baptism as healing, which relies on the presence of Holy Water. Reduccion Policy - Moving small groups of Filipino settlements into one, large ...
Spanish missionaries brought the first printing press to the Philippines in the 1590s. Tomas Pinpin, a Chinese merchant who had been converted to Christianity, put up the shop to house the press. He worked under the tutelage of the Dominican friars to produce in 1593 what is believed to be ...
European explorers and conquerors began coming to the Americas in droves after 1492. While the Spanish and Portuguese took the lead in colonization, the French soon began sending explorers of their own to the New World. Answer and Explanation: ...
He was canonized during 2002 by Pope John Paul II, who declared Saint Josemaría should be "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity." Escrivá gained a doctorate in civil law at the Complutense University of Madrid and a doctorate in theology at the Lateran University in Rome. His ...
In the present time, when "enlightened" opinion has turned liberal guilt into leftist self-hatred, with hatred spilling over for America, Christianity, Israel, most other religion (except ʾIslām and maybe Buddhism, as long as it has been properly denatured), and the West, the "Age of Di...
Before the conflict, the prevailing view in Spain saw the expansion of “civilization” and Christianity as Spain’s primary goal and contribution to the New World. The idea of cultural unification gave Cuba, which had been ruled by the Spanish for over 400 years and was seen as an ...
9. A Spanish Utopian Island in Japan (1599). – Giuseppe Marino 10. Two Friars Protest the Restriction on Missionaries Traveling to Japan (1605). – Natalie Cobo 11. A Layman’s Account of the Japanese Christianity (1619). – Noemi Martín Santo ...
Isolated by mountains that separate the Iberian penisula from its neighbours, inward-looking yet embattled as a frontier state of Christianity, Spain inspired art that is, more visibly than that of any nation except perhaps Russia, the product of her history and geography. Church and court ruled...