André Palmeiro
The Reverend André Palmeiro | |
|---|---|
| Jesuit Visitor of Asia | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1569 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 1635 (aged 65–66) |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Sainthood | |
| Canonized | 1625 by Pope Urban VIII |
André Palmeiro (1569–1635) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary who was born in Lisbon and entered the Society of Jesus in 1583.[1][2] He was appointed Ecclesiastical Visitor of the Asian missions of the Jesuits in 1618,[3] with general jurisdiction extending from Mozambique to the Moluccas.[4]
Palmeiro traveled from Portugal to oversee Jesuit missions across Asia, a function he carried out until his death in 1635. His jurisdiction included South India, Sri Lanka, Macau, Beijing,[5] and other regions he did not personally visit, such as Ethiopia and Japan.[6] He shifted Jesuit missionary focus from Japan to Tonkin and Cochin China (modern Vietnam). Before his appointment as Visitor,[7] he served as rector of the Colégio de São Paulo at Braga in northern Portugal.[8] In 1626, he traveled to China to study the structure and competitive aspects of the imperial examination system.[9]
References
- ^ Brockey, Liam Matthew (2014-09-15). The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-73557-6.
- ^ Zwartjes, Otto; Troia, Paolo De (2021-11-02). Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-5843-4.
- ^ "The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, by Liam Matthew Brockey". Times Higher Education (THE). 2014-12-11. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Brockey, Liam Matthew (2014-09-15). The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-41668-0.
- ^ "Counting souls". TLS. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Schoffeleers, J. M. (1992). River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, C. A.D. 1600. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-13324-5.
- ^ Amsler, Nadine; Badea, Andreea; Heyberger, Bernard; Windler, Christian (2019-10-24). Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-67150-0.
- ^ "Palmeiro, André". BDCC. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ BROCKEY, Liam Matthew (2009-06-30). Journey to the East. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02881-4.