Apologia pro veritate contra varias imposturas & accusationes publicas, Hispanice vulgatas adversus personam & libros P. Danielis Papebrochii Ipsumque Societatis Iesu Institutum.

Antwerp:: Heredes Henrici Thieullier, 1698., 1698. 4to. [1], [1 blank], viii, 162, 11, [1], [4], 35, [1 blank], [6], 62, 46, [2 blank], [10], 212 pp. [complete] Water-stains to top margin throughout text, text-block edges scorched by fire (not affecting actual text). Modern quarter dark calf, amrbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine titles. Title and second pages blind-stamped by the Theological Institute of Connecticut. Very rare. A defense against various types of fraud and false public accusations. Bound with three other works, all from the same publisher and same date [1698]: [2] Gaspar de la Cerda Sandoval Silva y Mendoza, conde de Galve, Examen Divinitatis Quam in Carmelo Vespasianus consuluit. Sive C. Suetonii tranquilli locus de Deo Carmelo. . .Interprete Daniele Papebrochio. . . .; [3] Nicolaus Rayaeus [Nicolas Raye], Examen Juridico-Theologicum Praeambulorum Adm. R.P. Sebastiani a S. Paulo ad exhibitionem errorum, Danieli Papebrochio. . . .; [4] Elucidatio Historica Actorum in Controversia super origine, antiquitate, & historiis Sacri Ord. B.M. de Monte Carmeli. . .Quae est Pars III & Ultima Responsionum Danielis Papebrochii. . . .

"Fr. Antonio Xaramillo served in the Marianas from 1676 until June 1680, and was then curator of the Mariana Mission in Manila" (Levesque, p. 303). A member of the Society of Jesus, Xaramillo also served as Procurator General for the Province of the Philippines. Daniel Papebroch, S.J., was a Flemish Jesuit hagiographer, one of the Bollandists, and a leading revisionist figure, bringing historical criticism on traditions regarding Catholic Church saints. REFERENCES: Levesque, Rodigue, History of Micronesia, Vol. 7: More Turmoil in the Marianas, 1679-1683, University of Hawai'i Press, 1996. See: Bibliographie Historique de la Compagnie de Jesus, p. 431.