ALMEIDA, MANUEL de. - Jesuit missionary, b. at Viseu (Portugal) in 1581 and having entered religion in 1594, he set out for the missions of the East in 1601, was rector of the novitiate of Goa and of the college of Bazsim before passing in 1624 to Ethiopia as visitor and superior of the Jesuit mission. He remained there until 1634 amid great hardships and tribulations. Expelled from the country by the emperor Fasiladas, he returned to India, where he was rector of the College of St. Paul in Goa (1633-36) and provincial of the province of Goa; he died in the same city on 10 May 1646.
On the instructions of his Superiors, he wrote a History of Ethiopia begun in that same land before 1628; through various reworkings, it supplied the substance of the Historia de Etiopia a Alta, published by Fr. Balt. Telles in 1660. The original of Fr. A. was published by Fr. C. Beccari in Rerum Aethiopicarum Scriptores occidentales, vols. V-VII, Rome 1907-1909. The work consists of ten books and goes back to the most ancient times; from book VIII onward the author narrates events of which he was a witness. At the head of the first book there is a map of Ethiopia, with the exact indication of the sources of the Blue Nile, discovered by A. together with Fr. Pietro Paes.
Bibliography4 worksSommervogel, I, coll. 193-94; VIII, col. 1612; C. Beccari, Notizie e Saggi di opere e documenti inediti riguardanti la Storia di Etiopia, Ro
BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, coll. 193-94; VIII, col. 1612; C. Beccari, Notizie e Saggi di opere e documenti inediti riguardanti la Storia di Etiopia, Rome 1903, pp. 89-108; 303-32; id., Rerum Aethiopicarum Script. occidentale, V, Rome 1907, introduz.
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Almeida, manuel de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 913. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/almeida-manuel-de.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Almeida, manuel de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 913. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/almeida-manuel-de.
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@incollection{ec1_almeida_manuel_de,
author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Almeida, manuel de},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {913},
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/almeida-manuel-de}
}
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