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Example sentences for: jesuit

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They made little effort, despite the Jesuit presence in Asia, to convert local inhabitants to Christianity or to expand their territory into the interior.
It quoted Jesuit church historian Giacomo Martina, a professor at the Gregorian University in Rome, as saying that the claim was "shameful."
On a gray Beijing afternoon in May, I found myself back at Nantang Church, an otherwise nondescript building that rests on ground given to a Jesuit missionary by the emperor four centuries back.
In 1543 Portuguese explorers reached Tanegashima Island, off southern Kyushu, followed over the next decade by Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries, headed by St Francis Xavier, who landed at Kagoshima in 1549.
On the open roof is a fine collection of Qing Dynasty bronze instruments (copies) devised by the Jesuit missionaries who resided in Beijing in the 17th century.