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Abinal, Antoine

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ABINAL, ANTOINE. - Jesuit missionary, b. at Chanac on 10 Jan. 1829, d. on 11 Nov. 1887 in Madagascar. He published, with Fr. La Vaissière, the work Vingt ans à Madagascar (Paris 1881) and, with Fr. Malzac, a Dictionnaire malgache français (Tananarive 1888).

He translated into Malagasy many books of the New and Old Testaments and the Imit. of Christ.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, col. 14 and appendix I, p. 1; E.-M. Rivière, s. v. in DHG, I coll. 123.

Benedetto Gioia

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 81–82.

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Benedetto Gioia. “Abinal, antoine.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 81–82. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/abinal-antoine.

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Benedetto Gioia. “Abinal, antoine.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 81–82. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/abinal-antoine.

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  author    = {Benedetto Gioia},
  title     = {Abinal, antoine},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {81--82},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/abinal-antoine}
}

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