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Carta Pastoral del Ilustrísimo Señor Don Francisco Fabian y Fuero, Obispo de la Puebla de los Angeles. [Madrid, Imprenta Real de la Gaceta, 1768].61pp; signed: El obispo de la Puebla de los Angeles. Por mandado de s. illma. el obispo mi sr. d. Victoriano Lopez, secretario. Dated (p. 61): Puebla de los Angeles, á veinte y ocho de octubre de mil setecientos sesenta y siete; Signatures: A-H⁴ (leaf H4 blank); there are 2 versions of this first edition: this version is typographically identical to the edition published in Madrid, in 1768, with the exception of the missing imprint. Medina (Puebla, # 799) erroneously identified this work as a Puebla imprint.
FIRST EDITION of this important Pastoral Letter signed in Puebla de los Angeles on October 28, 1767, coinciding with the expulsion of the Jesuits from America; in it he concentrates his attacks on the supposed moral laxity of the Society and on the probabilistic perspective of the Jesuits in Moral Theology. Francisco Fabián y Fuero (1719-1801),… Read More