In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth,
Andre Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the
world. Bearing the title Father Visitor, he was entrusted with the
daunting task of inspecting Jesuit missions spanning from
Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of a biography,
The Visitor" tells the story of a theologian whose extraordinary
travels bore witness to the fruitful contact and violent collision
of East and West in the early modern era.
In India, Palmeiro was thrust into a controversy over the
missionary tactics of Roberto Nobili, who insisted on dressing the
part of an indigenous ascetic. Palmeiro walked across Southern
India to inspect Nobili s mission, recording fascinating
observations along the way. As the highest-ranking Jesuit in India,
he also coordinated missions to the Mughal Emperors and the
Ethiopian Christians, as well as the first European explorations of
the East African interior and the highlands of Tibet.
Orders from Rome sent Palmeiro farther afield in 1626, to
Macau, where he oversaw Jesuit affairs in East Asia. He played a
crucial role in creating missions in Vietnam and seized the
opportunity to visit the Chinese mission, trekking thousands of
miles to Beijing as one of China s first Western tourists. When the
Tokugawa Shogunate brutally cracked down on Christians in Japan
where neither he nor any Westerner had power to intervene Palmeiro
died from anxiety over the possibility that the last Jesuits still
alive would apostatize under torture."
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