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Rev.: Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, written by Francis X. Clooney, S. J.

01/06/2023

Mission Studies, 40, 2

p. 310-312

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341917

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Abstract

The book is an excellent translation by Francis Clooney of "Tempavani" -- a poetic treatise composed in high literary Tamil by Jesuit missionary Beschi (1680-1747) in South India, with the poem (rather tenderly) depicting St. Joseph's ministry in Egypt and his family life -- in the hope of course, that the piety of the proto-Christian St. Joseph would encourage pious Tamils to also convert to Catholicism.