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Beginning around 1540, an order of Catholic priests known as the Jesuits began to send its members to many parts of the world to convert peoples who believed in other gods to Christianity. Wherever they went, the Catholic missionaries built central buildings for their religious work, and the buildings themselves became known as missions; many 17th-century missions in the American West and Southwest are now preserved as museums. Their foes, the Protestants, soon began sending out their own missionaries, and today Protestant missionaries are probably far more numerous.
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Variety, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
Attempts to catalogue them involve missionaries, brands, and a passion project run by a handful of linguists.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024
Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Creel won an Olivier Award in 2014 for his role as missionary Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, starring in the show’s first national tour and in London’s West End.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Missionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/missionary. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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missionary
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missionary
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