Abstract
Readers in the early seventeenth century must have immediately recognised the description of inhabitants of the Euphrates region in the De Bry collection as an unmistakable swipe at Catholics: the locals were seen as ?inhabitants, [who] just like the Papists venerate the deceased saints?. While Theodore de Bry co-ordinated the publication of the Benzoni volumes, his sons, in 1596, published as one of their first independent works a book written by the Jesuit Julius Roscius. This volume, published by the two brothers without any reference on the title-page to their father, opened with the successful conversion of the Congolese to Christianity by Catholic visitors from Portugal. The illustrations showing the building of a Christian church, and the ensuing destruction of local, demonic idols were a world away from the anti-Spanish sentiments of the Benzoni volumes finished in the years before.Keywords: Benzoni volumes; Catholics; Christianity; De Bry collection; demonic idols; early seventeenth century; Euphrates region; Jesuit Julius Roscius; Papists
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