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How did a Portuguese #Jesuit become a #Tamil saint, whose worship is still strong today?
In a stunning fine-grained, #multilingual #ethnohistory, Margherita Trento (EHESS) weaves together all the threads of the #martyrdom and #canonization of a Jesuit in the early-modern #imperial encounter in the south of the #Indian subcontinent.
👉 "Martyrdom, Witnessing, and Social Lineages in the Tamil Country (17th-18th c.)": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/abs/martyrdom-witnessing-and-social-lineages-in-the-tamil-country/8C80008A9F920E96A26AFD64CCB77A83