Second Edition 2008 =

by Jan Snijders

Let us try,

my Reverend Father,

to form our religious

in a style of piety

that leaves the head and the other faculties

able to cope with practical matters

Jean-Baptiste François Pompallier

to Jean-Claude Colin.

1839.

Contents

• foreword
• abbreviations
• introduction
• chapter one How it all began
• chapter two Launching the mission
  • excursus A The ius commissionis and the diarchy
• chapter three 1837 : 'Towards the fight proposed to us'
• chapter four 1838 - 1 : The second wave
• chapter five 1838 - 2 : Worlds Apart
  • excursus B Money matters
• chapter six 1839 - 1 : The separate worlds connect
  • excursus C Power encounter and iconoclasm
• epilogue
• bibliography

A Piety Able to Cope

Author

Title Page

foreword

abbreviations

introduction

chapter one

chapter two

excursus A

chapter three

chapter four

chapter five

excursus B

chapter six

excursus C

epilogue

bibliography