Light Of The Laughter And Sometimes Of The Kicks And Cuffs

He was, therefore, sent to Persia, although he was then over sixty years old; so to Persia he went, and we find him studying the language on his way thither, and, when travelling through the streets of Ispahan,

making a fool of himself in trying to stammer out the few words he had learned, but always making light of the laughter and sometimes of the kicks and cuffs and even threats of death that he received.

He was planning new missionary posts in Georgia and Tatary when death called him to his reward. But he had already won the admiration of Ispahan, and the city never saw a costlier funeral than the one which, on November 7, 1660, conveyed to the grave the mortal remains of the glorious Alexandre de Rhodes, S.J..

Link (here) to this portion of book entitled, The Jesuits by Fr. Thomas Joseph Campbell, S.J.

Colored engraving of Ispahan, Persia dated 1685

"Der Teufel Ist Los"

Therefore a "wedding" ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have..... Link (here)

Some Jesuit history in Persia (here)

P.F. Ignatius Of Jesu On The Mandaeans

Jean de Thevenot, in 1663, gave an estimated the Mandaean population as 3,279 souls. In 1672 the Jesuit missionary P. F. Ignatius of Jesu stated that there were 2,500 Mandaean families in Mesopotamia and that there were colonies of them in Muscat,Goa and Ceylon.

Link (here) to the book The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iraq

A modern day photo of a Mandaean baptism

Polish Jesuits, Missionaries To Iran

During the eighteen century the Catholic clergy started to propagate the faith and they dispatched a group of Karemili and Jesuit missionaries to Iran. The most important missionary sent from Poland was Tadeusz Juda Krusinski whose sojourn in Isfahan coincided with the last days of declining Sultan Hussein of the Safavid Dynasty. He expired in the year 1756 in a town called Nietak at the age of 81. The Polish priest has left behind several books of which the most important is his treatise on the last revolution in Iran.

Read the complete and interesting article (here)

Catholics in Iran for two thousand years (here)