Publication Date
2009
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Clergy of the Society of Jesus who worked mostly in Japan. Born in Chikugo in 1570, he was also known as André Kusano. He was admitted to the seminary in 1583 and to the Society in 1590. In 1601 he left for Macau and in 1603 he was finishing the third year of Examen of Consciousness. He was also companion of Japan's procurator, a position he held at least from 1603 to the beginning of 1609. In July of the same year he must have returned to Japan. He was dismissed on 10th March, 1612.
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
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