Claudia von Collani: A MISSIONARY ON HIS JOURNEY: MICHAŁ BOYM AND RELIGIONS IN EAST ASIA

Michał Boym SJ (1612–1659) belonged to the many Jesuits who started their mis-sionary life under the auspices of the Portuguese Padroado. He was sent from Lis-bon to the Far East on 30 March 1643. Since 1645 he sojourned in the Far East, at first in  Tonkin. Afterwards he  stayed on  the Southern  Chinese island of Hainan, then in Annam. Thus, Boym started his missionary work in the Jesuit province of Japan, which then consisted of Cochinchina (Southern Vietnam), Cambodia, Siam, Tonkin (Northern Vietnam), the island of Hainan and Laos, which all were part of the sphere  of influence of the Portuguese Padroado. In Macau  Boym professed his four solemn vows in 1650. In the same year Álvaro de Semedo (1586–1658), the Vice-Provincial of China, sent him to the Southern Ming Court of the Yongli 永 曆   emperor  in  Guangxi  to  support  Fr.  Andreas  Wolfgang  Koffler  (1612–1652). At the same  time Johann  Adam Schall von Bell (1592–1666) was in the service of the first Qing emperor Shunzhi 順治 (1644–1662) in Peking.

Work can be found at the link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276774481_A_MISSIONARY_ON_HIS_JOURNEY_MICHAL_BOYM_AND_RELIGIONS_IN_EAST_ASIA