Missionary Collection

The Hope of the World - Jesus and Children - Postcard
The Hope of the World - Jesus and the Children of many nations. Postcard produced by the London Missionary Society. Date: circa 1910s

Ramon Llull (1235-1316). Breviculum Codex. Miniature. Baden
Ramon Llull (1235-1316). Breviculum Codex. Miniature. Llull preaching. Parchment 92. Page 5r. Baden Memorial Library. Karlsruhe. Germany

Saint Columba with his horse
Saint Columba (also known as Colum Cille, meaning dove of the church) with his horse. He was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk, thought to have introduced Christianity to the Picts

Eric Liddell (1902 - 1945), Scottish athlete, rugby union international and missionary, Olympic gold medal winner in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games

St Boniface / Sacred Oak
SAINT BONIFACE (Wynfryth, of Crediton) Bishop of Mainz, missionary and martyr in Germany, destroying the sacred oak of an ancient German god

Victorian mother and three children (Polhill-Turner family)
A Victorian mother and three children. They are Mrs Polhill-Turner (nee Emily Frances Barron, d 1913)), wife of Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner (1826-1881), with Alice (Alice Kate Frances)

Missionary Society Seal
Seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; the banner above the ship is a plea for a safe passage

Schweitzer / Postcard 1956
ALBERT SCHWEITZER French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar with his antelopes at Lambarene, Africa Date: 1875 - 1965

Schweitzer / Postcard
ALBERT SCHWEITZER French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar

Swedish Church Mission, Mnene, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Group of people assembled after a baptism ceremony. Date: circa 1910

Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) in Goa (India)
Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Spanish missionary, through the streets of the Portuguese colony of Goa (India) in 1542. French engraving, 1850. Colored

Roberto de Nobili, Italian missionary
Roberto de Nobili, an Italian Jesuit missionary to Southern India

Rev. R. H. Walker, and Mika Sematimba
The Rev. R.H. Walker, missionary at Uganda, and Mika Sematimba. Rev. Walker is interviewed, stating his desire that Uganda is retained by the English. Date: 1892

The Autograph Album, by William Heath Robinson
A Souperscription. Illustration showing a missionary signing a little boys book whilst being boiled alive. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

Junction Picture
A medieval missionary finds a place where the Earth touches the Heavens. (Note that this is not a medieval illustration but a very clever 19th century pastiche !)

Saint Antoninus of Pamiers. Christian missionary and martyr
Saint Antoninus of Pamiers. Early Christian missionary and martyr. Patron saint of the cities of Pamiers (France), Palencia and Medina del Campo (Spain). Portrait. Illustration by Llanta

Francis Xavier (1506-1552). Basque Roman Catholic missionary into Asia. Jesuit. Staute. Pamplena Cathedral. Navarre. Spain

William Rowland Peck
WILLIAM ROWLAND PECK English missionary in Sierra Leone Date: circa 1840

Papua New Guinea - Elevara Mission and L. M.s Mission
Papua New Guinea - Elevara Village and the L.M.S. Mission. The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans

Charles Livingstone
REV. CHARLES LIVINGSTONE (1821 - 1873) Co-wrote The Zambesi and its tributaries with his explorer brother David. Travelled extensively in Africa where he died in 1873

Monk with Skull, Etc
Father Leonard Parisinus, a missionary monk, with a selection of significant items - a skull, a crucifix, a missal and an empty candlestick

Akbar the Great receives a deputation of Jesuits
Akbar the Great (1542-1605), third Mughal Emperor of India, receives a deputation of Jesuits

St Boniface / Boat Trip
SAINT BONIFACE (Wynfryth, of Crediton) departing from England to undertake missionary work in Germany, on behalf of Pope Gregory II

Xavier, Saint Francis (1506-1552). Jesuit missionary, co-founder of the order and patron saint of the missions. Work by ZURBARAN, Francisco de (1598-1664). Baroque art. Painting. SPAIN. Madrid

JUNIPERO SERRA 1713-1784
JUNIPERO SERRA Franciscan missionary in California - founded the San Carlos Borromeo Mission at Carmel

Livingstone / Annan
DAVID LIVINGSTONE Missionary and explorer

Thomas the Apostle 2
THOMAS DIDYMUS is famous for doubting the resurrection of Jesus; later he went as a missionary to Parthia and India, where he was pierced with lances near Madras

Henry Martyn
HENRY MARTYN English missionary and orientalist; translated the New Testament into Hindustani and Psalms into Persian

ANCHIETA (1533 - 1597)
JOSE DE ANCHIETA Portuguese Jesuit missionary in America

Deaf and Dumb School, Palayamkottai, India
C. E. Z. (Church of England Zenana Missionary Society) Deaf and Dumb School, Palamcottah (now Palayamkottai in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu), India. Deaf and Dumb children learning to talk

Father Serapion martyred in Algeria, North Africa
Father Serapion, an English or Irish Mercedarian friar, offers himself as a hostage in order to free captive Christians in Algeria, North Africa

Likoma, Lake Nyasa - waiting for the Mission Steamer
Likoma on Likoma Island, Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi), Malawi - waiting for the arrival of the Mission Steamer. Malawi was at this stage Nyasaland, a British protectorate established in 1907. circa 1910s

C. M. S. Kalat Mission Hospital - Quetta, Balochistan province of Pakistan Date: circa 1909

Ufos / Gill / New Guinea
At Boianai, Papua New Guinea, missionary William Gill and 37 others see a hovering saucer whose occupants wave to them : it returns the next night

Ufos / Papua, New Guinea
Missionary William Gill and 37 natives see a disc with waving occupants, which hovers over the mission two nights running

Africa Vincent Mission Station Zambesi River pre-1900

Africa Bandawe Mission Station pre-1900

Africa Blantyre School pre-1900

Group of people in Natal, Africa with a sewing machine, early 1900s

Missionary Hospital staff

Staff in a Missionary Hospital, Victorian period

Henry Morton Stanley Victorian period

Christian Mission children, China, early 1900s

Christian Mission children doing embroidery, China, early 1900s

Christian Mission children exercise, China, early 1900s

Christian mission school children, China, early 1900s

Tailors at the Lester Hospital, Shanghai, China, Victorian period

Treehouse, Papua New Guinea, Victorian period

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