ADEODATO of Fano. - Capuchin friar of the Marches province; he took the habit on 5 Oct 1805 and later went as an apostolic missionary to the East Indies; he worked for fifteen years in Delhi, where he died on 18 Oct 1837. He translated into the Urdu language the catechetical instructions of Fr. Pietro M. Ferreri.
BIBL. G. da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche e le loro opere edite ed inedite, Iesi 1928, p. 1; C. da Terzario, Le missioni dei Minori Cappuccini, IX, Roma 1935, p. 256. Melchiorre da Pobladura.