Letter from Jean Le Vacher to René Alméras, 1648-06-22, Tunis
Title
Letter from Jean Le Vacher to René Alméras, 1648-06-22, Tunis
Subject
Tunis
Plague
Non-Catholic Christians
Description
Letter from Jean Le Vacher to the superior of CM in Rome (René Alméras) reporting: a) the death of Julien Guérin on 23 May 1648; b) that of Jacques Lesage [spelled Le Sagè] in Algiers approximately 20 days before; c) the slow recovery from his own brush with the plague; d) details regarding Julien Guérin's place of enterment; and e) an incident caused by the discovery of a well-preserved corpse in the Christian cemetery in Tunis, and the conflict it caused between the Roman Catholics and the Greek Orthodox; this prompted the local administration to rule that from then on the Greek would bury their dead in a different cemetery.
Additional comments
Creator
Jean Le Vacher
Source
APF SOCG 65, 207r-v, 208v
Publisher
Cited in P. Coste, ed., Saint Vincent de Paul: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents (Brooklyn, NY: 1985-2010), vol. 3, doc. 1057, p. 349, fn. 4.
Date
1648-06-22
Contributor
Addressed to René Alméras
Format
Original; signed, dated; Italian
Language
Italian
Type
Letter
Identifier
138
Coverage
Origin: Tunis
Destination: [Paris]
Citation
Jean Le Vacher, “Letter from Jean Le Vacher to René Alméras, 1648-06-22, Tunis,” Early Modern Documents: Sources and Resources for Historical Research, accessed November 29, 2023, https://earlymoderndocs.omeka.net/items/show/13717.