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Álvares, Gaspar Afonso

ÁLVARES, GASPAR AFFONSO

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Also known as: Gaspar Alvarez

ÁLVARES, GASPAR AFONSO. - Jesuit missionary, b. near Coimbra in 1626, d. at São Tomé on 24 November 1708. Having entered the religious order in 1641, he left for India in 1647 and was rector at Goa, superior at Bandora and provincial of Malabar (1680-84). As procurator of his mission in Rome, he set out again in 1677. Appointed bishop of Mylapur and consecrated at Goa in 1693, he vigorously defended before Clement XI the lawfulness of the "Malabar rites" against the prescriptions of Cardinal de Tournon. Various letters of A. are listed in Streit's Bibliotheca Missionum (V, pp. 192-93, and VI, p. 15).

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BIBL.: A. Franco, Imagem de virtude em o noviciado... de Lisboa, Lisboa 1717, pp. 656-57; E. Rivière, s. v. in DHG, II, coll. 864-65.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 949.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Álvares, gaspar affonso.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 949. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alvares-gaspar-affonso.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Álvares, gaspar affonso.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 949. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alvares-gaspar-affonso.

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  author    = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
  title     = {Álvares, gaspar affonso},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {949},
  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/alvares-gaspar-affonso}
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