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Michała Piotra Boyma i Jana Mikołaja Smoguleckiego, dwóch XVII-wiecznych polskich jezuitów, różniło niemal wszystko: pochodzenie, majątek, wykształcenie, zainteresowania, charaktery. Ich losy splotły się jednak, gdy, zainspirowani chęcią niesienia Chrystusowej Ewangelii ludom Dalekiego Wschodu, wstąpili do Towarzystwa Jezusowego. W trakcie 2-letnich studiów teologicznych w Krakowie przygotowywali się wspólnie do podjęcia w przyszłości pracy misjonarza w Chinach. Ich drogi rozeszły się jednak w momencie, gdy Smogulecki wyjechał do Rzymu, gdzie jeszcze przed ukończeniem studiów otrzymał obietnicę wyjazdu na Wschód. Boym natomiast pozostał w Krakowie, skąd listownie przekonywał generała zakonu o swym misyjnym powołaniu, oskarżając nawet Smoguleckiego o brak lojalności. Świadectwo starań obu jezuitów o skierowanie na misję, a także powstałej między nimi animozji, zawarte jest w listach, które obaj skierowali do ówczesnego generała zakonu, Mutio Vitelleschiego, a które znajdują się obecnie w Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (Pol. 79). Chociaż ostatecznie i Boym, i Smogulecki sprawowali posługę misyjną w Państwie Środka, a nawet przebywali tam w tym samym czasie, wydaje się, że ich drogi nie spotkały się już nigdy.
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Michał Piotr Boym and Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki, two seventeenth-century Polish Jesuits, differed in almost every aspect: the origin, property, education, interests, personalities. Their fates became intertwined, however, when, inspired by the desire to carry the Gospel of Christ to the peoples of the Far East, they both joined the Society of Jesus. During the two-year theology studies in Cracow, they prepared together for a future missionary work in China. Their paths diverged, however, when Smogulecki went to Rome, where even before graduation he was promised a trip to the East. Boym, on the other hand, remained in Cracow, from where he persuaded in letters to the Society’s General of his missionary vocation, accusing even Smogulecki of disloyalty. The testimony of the both Jesuits’ efforts to receive the referral to a mission, as well as of the animosity that arose between them, is comprehended in the letters, currently in the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (Pol. 79), which they both headed to the then General of the Order, Mutio Vitelleschi. While, eventually, both Boym and Smogulecki exercised missionary service in the Middle Kingdom or even lived there at the same time – it seems their paths never met anymore.
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The first trustworthy and reliable image of the Far East was presented to the European readers by the missionaries who have been working in India, Japan, China and other Oriental countries in 16th–18th centuries. In the case of the Middle Kingdom it was the Society of Jesus that was sending there the most qualified and educated monks. They were using their mathematical or astronomical knowledge as a key to better understand and accept Chinese intellectual elite. This special interaction between a science and the Christian faith became a symbol of the Jesuits’ way of acting in China. As a result, the Jesuit missionaries presented the European science to Chinese and at the same time gained many important information about the Middle Kingdom. Their observations were presented to the European readers in their letters, relations and, above all, in the academic treatises presenting all the facts and miracles (“mirabilia”) of the Oriental world. Between them the most influential description of China during the first half of the 17th century was De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta (first edition in Latin – Augsburg 1615), written by Nicolas Trigault SI as a translation or augmented version of the Matteo Ricci’s journal. This picturesque description of the Middle Kingdom and the Jesuit mission to China provided European readers with more, better organized and more accurate information about China than has been ever available. It also presented the Jesuit mission in a favorable light, creating an image of the Society of Jesus as the most effective order in the Far East
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