Jerome de Angelis

Jerome de Angelis (Girolamo degli Angeli; Castro-Giovanni, 1567 – 4 December 1623) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan. He was beatified in 1867.^[1]

Life

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1585, and in 1602 began his mission in Japan. He remained there after the publication of the edict expelling all Christian missionaries from the country.

The first European on Hokkaido,^[2][3] he was the first missionary to reach Yezo and the Ainu people. De Angelis, after making many converts to Christianity, seeing that his neophytes were cruelly persecuted because of his presence among them and his preaching, gave himself up to the authorities. Condemned to death, he underwent public execution by fire.

Notes

1. ^ Stephen Turnbull, Japan's Hidden Christians, 1549-1999 (2000), p. 44.
2. ^ http://www.library.ucsb.edu/people/larsgaard/plan1600.html
3. ^ Laures Rare Book Database SIMPLE

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Girolamo degli Angeli". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 

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Date of birth	1567
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Date of death	4 December 1623
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