Clergy of the Society of Jesus who worked in Japan. He was born in Omura around 1568 and died in Macau, probably in 1604 or 1605. He attended the Arima seminary in 1580 and joined the Society of Jesus eight years later. In 1601 he went to Macau, where he studied Examen of Consciousness; he died in Macau.

Bibliography:
COSTA, João Paulo Oliveira e, O Cristianismo no Japão e o Episcopado de D. Luís de Cerqueira, dissertação de doutoramento em História apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, 1998 (texto fotocopiado).

Author: Helena Rodrigues

Translated by: Maria das Mercês Pacheco