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Amaral, Gaspare

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Also known as: Portuguese: Gaspar Amaral

AMARAL, GASPARE. - Jesuit missionary, b. at Corvaceira in Portugal in 1592. He worked in Goa, in Macao, in Cochinchina, then for seven years in Tonkin. Rector at Macao (1633), vice-provincial (1641-45) of the Japanese province, by then expelled from Japan, he died in a shipwreck in 1669 while returning to Tonkin. He left behind a manuscript Annamite dictionary, later used by Fr. Alexandre de Rhodes in compiling his well-known work.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, coll. 261-62; Streit, Bibl., V, p. 179.

Edmondo Lamalle

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 971.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Amaral, gaspare.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 971. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/amaral-gaspare.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Amaral, gaspare.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 971. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/amaral-gaspare.

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  author    = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
  title     = {Amaral, gaspare},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {971},
  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/amaral-gaspare}
}

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