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Cover illustration: S. Francisco Xavier Principe del Mar. Taken from El principe del mar, San Francisco Xavier, de la Compañia de Jesus, Apostol de el Oriente, y Patron de sus navegaciones, by Lorenzo Ortiz (Cadiz, 1688). Courtesy Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu.
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