During the mid-1860s, the Belgian press and politics were riveted by legal proceedings alleging Jesuit financial predation against the estate of noted Antwerp businessman and donor to religious causes Guillaume-Joseph De Boey. These controversies remain understudied in prominent scholarship on De Boey's extensive support for Jesuit missions in the United States. More recent scholarship on religious contestation in Belgian politics during the 1850s and 1860s explores the trials but focuses on their politicisation and prominence of anti-Jesuit tropes more than the potential accuracy of the allegations of impropriety. Combining these literatures with trial transcripts and archival research, this article revisits the De Boey case to explore ways in which Jesuit funding for overseas missions navigated legal restrictions on private donations. The article reveals a pattern of proxies and regulatory evasion, but one conducted through donor complicity more than Jesuit predation. These findings add to the historiography of Jesuit funding networks and support for overseas missions.

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耶稣会传教经费和遗产捐赠：重温比利时关于德博伊庄园处置的争议，1850 年至 1868 年*

1860 年代中期，比利时媒体和政界被指控耶稣会士对著名安特卫普商人和宗教事业捐助者纪尧姆·约瑟夫·德博伊的财产进行经济掠夺的法律诉讼所吸引。这些争议在德博伊对美国耶稣会传教活动的广泛支持的著名学术研究中仍然没有得到充分研究。最近关于 1850 年代和 1860 年代比利时政治中宗教争论的学术研究探讨了这些审判，但更多地关注它们的政治化和反耶稣会比喻的突出性，而不是不当指控的潜在准确性。本文将这些文献与审判笔录和档案研究相结合，重新审视德博伊案，探讨耶稣会资助海外传教活动如何克服对私人捐赠的法律限制。这篇文章揭示了一种代理和逃避监管的模式，但这种模式更多地是通过捐助者的共谋而不是耶稣会掠夺而进行的。这些发现丰富了耶稣会资助网络和对海外宣教支持的历史记录。