Ryan, Judy Anne (1990) An Examination of the Achievement of the Jesuit Order in South Africa, 1879. Masters thesis, Rhodes University.
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Abstract
The Society of Jesus, founded in 1540 by St. Ignatius of Loyola, dispatched the first group of five priests and three brothers to the Cape in 1875. Their destination was St. Aidan's College (1875-1973) in Grahamstown which they would staff . Two of the priests went to Graaff-Reinet where the Society established a mission house and noviciate (1875- 1889). On 1 July 1878 the Zambesi Mission was founded with Henry Depelchin as its appointed leader. The Mission was placed under the direct control of the Jesuit General. St. Aidan's became the headquarters of the Zambesi Mission and it was hoped that trainees for the Mission would emerge from the College. The first group of missionaries bound for the Zambesi regions left Grahamstown in 1879. Negotiations followed with the Ndebele chiefdom in Bulawayo and stations were established at Tati, Empandeni and Pandamatenga. Unsuccessful probes into Barotseland and Gazaland followed and a decade later the mission
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Society of Jesus, SJ, Zambesi Mission |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa |
| Divisions: | Jesuitica |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2014 12:59 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2018 09:58 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/113 |
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