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040			_erda
050			_aBX 4795 _b.J328 1991
100			_aBernard, Miguel A. _937537
245		0	_aFive great missionary experiments and cultural issues in Asia / _cMiguel A. Bernad, S.J.
264			_aQuezon City : _bAteneo de Manila University, _c1991
300			_axi, 181 pages _c 23 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aThere have been many missionary experiments since apostolic times, some of which deserve to be called great. An outstanding example were the Reductions among the Guarani "Indians" in what was then known as Paraguay, a territory now shared by the three republics of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Equally outstanding, and with far greater greater and more permanent results, was the work of the monastic orders which contributed so much to the Christianization of Europe. A group of monks went into the wilderness, or to a mountain-top, or to a pleasant valley beside a river. They cut the timber, sowed the fields, built their monasteries, sang the liturgy and copied the manuscripts, and gradually a Christian community grew up around them and the entire locality eventually became Christian. --From the Introduction
650			_aMissionaries. _2sears _942238
942			_cIRC
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