Novena en honra de el invicto, y glorioso proto-martyr del Japon San Felipe de Jesus.

A$3,750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Dispuesta por el P. Antonio Vidal de Figueroa, Presbitero, de la Congregacion de el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, de esta Ciudad de México. Año 1711. Con licencia en Mexico : por los Herederes de Juan Joseph Guillena Carrascoso, 1711. Duodecimo (144 x 96 mm), marbled paper wrappers; title-leaf, pp. 30; a fine copy. A novena (devotional prayer intended to be recited over nine days) in honour of St. Felipe de Jesús, one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan crucified in Nagasaki on 5 February, 1597. Recognised as the first Mexican-born saint, he is also the patron saint of Mexico City, where the pamphlet was published.

• Binding: Hardcover

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