Publication Date
2009
Categories
Tags period
Location
Clergy of the Society of Jesus who worked mostly in Japan. He was born in Kuchinotsu around 1575. He studied at the seminary and was admitted to the Society on 4th October, 1595. He left for Macau in October 1598 but returned to Japan in 1600 because he fell very ill, being thus dismissed from the Society.

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).

Translated by: Maria das Mercês Pacheco