Memorializing the Unsung : Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism
By the time the Capuchins arrived in the seventeenth century, Kongo had been Catholic for nearly two hundred years. The European mission could not be conversion, then, but reinforcement; the Capuchins sought to establish the sacraments and a line to Rome in a lay-led church already suffused with an...
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Penn State University Press
2024
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