DEDICATION

...driven by this zeal in Puebla original: "Angelopoli," meaning City of Angels, the historical name for Puebla de los Ángeles in Mexico, the most celebrated city of the Kingdom of Mexico, you founded churches. You established a new Congregation of secular priests secular priests: clergy who live and work among the public rather than living in a closed monastery or belonging to a specific religious order, which you call the Congregation of Christ, with outstanding generosity. Through the support of this group, you have provided such excellent and God-pleasing benefits to the Church in the conversion of the heathens original: "Barbarorum," literally barbarians; in this context, Kircher refers to the indigenous peoples of the Americas that a grateful posterity will acknowledge them with eternal honor for YOUR name.

Bound by these mutual bonds of friendship, while I admire YOU AND YOUR deeds, YOU