Publication Date
2009
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Clergy of the Society of Jesus who worked in Japan. Born in Soure around 1590, he entered the Society in 1609, arriving in Japan in 1612. In 1613 he served as host of the college at Nagasaki, where he also learned Japanese. He returned to Macao November 1614. His membership in the Society was terminated on 29 August, 1622.

Bibliography:
Monumenta Historica Japoniae, dir. de Josef Franz Schütte S. J., Roma, Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 1975; João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, 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 João Pimentel