Conquistador Without Sword: The Life of Roque González, SJ
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Conquistador Without Sword: The Life of Roque Gonz&#225lez, SJ  -     By: C.J. McNaspy

Conquistador Without Sword: The Life of Roque González, SJ

Loyola Press / 1984 / Hardcover

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Title: Conquistador Without Sword: The Life of Roque González, SJ
By: C.J. McNaspy
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 206
Vendor: Loyola Press
Publication Date: 1984
Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 0829404554
ISBN-13: 9780829404555
Stock No: WW404555

Publisher's Description

Conquistador Without Sword vividly tells, for the first time in English, the story of Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ. Son of one of the original conquistadors, Roque dedicated his intense life to the defense of the Guaraní Indians of Paraguay and became the main founder of the famed "Reductions" – havens for the Indians against enslavement by the colonists. Roque was the First American-born martyr who died while serving American Indians.

Thanks to research into contemporary documents, C.J. McNaspy, SJ, offers the hostile Indians’ defense in their own words. The irony of Roque’s martyrdom is that those who executed him were unaware that they were killing their most stalwart defender. Today, descendants of the Guaraní Indians regard Roque as their hero. Roque was a liberator and is the spiritual ancestor of today’s martyrs in Central and South America.

Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ, was beatified in the Roman Catholic Church on January 28, 1934, by Pope Pius XI. Roque was canonized in the Roman Catholic Church on May 16, 1988, by St. John Paul II. His feast day is November 16.

Author Bio

C.J. McNASPY, SJ, (March 22, 1915 – February 3, 1995) taught for many years of Loyola University New Orleans, and was fine arts editor of America magazine from 1960-1070. He also taught at Sophia University in Tokyo and lectured widely in Europe and Latin America. He moved to Paraguay in 1980 and became a university professor of art and languages at Asunción. Among his many published works is Lost Cities of Paraguay: Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Reductions 1607-1767 (Loyola Press, 1982) upon which the movie The Mission is based.



RALPH CREASMAN studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Peabody College Nashville, and the New School for Social Research. His work has appeared in national magazines, and he has illustrated several children’s books. 

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