El “Siglo Jesuita” de las Islas Marianas, 1662-1769

Abstract

This research studies the ways by which the members of the Society of Jesus carried out their missionary project at the Mariana Islands. It describes how this project was led by Diego Luis de San Vitores, a Jesuit born in Burgos. Moreover, this paper explains how the missionary activity of the Jesuits suited the experiences which the Society was performing by the time in places such as the Northern part of the New Spain Viceroyalty, the unexplored regions of Paraguay and the Indian and Chinese territories. The paper concludes in chronological terms, concerning the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Guam and Mariana Islands.