Angulo, Pedro de

ANGULO, PEDRO de. - Spanish missionary, b. in Burgos. In 1524 he went to America in search of adventure and glory. But four years later, seized by the zeal to make the cause of the Indians his own, he entered the Order of the Dominicans, in the convent of Mexico, and followed Fr. Las Casas (v.) to Peru. In 1541 he was sent to the Dominican mission of Guatemala, a mission which he brought to such great flourishing that it was erected, ten years later, into an autonomous Dominican province. A. dedicated himself, finally, to the conversion of the barbarian populations living in northern Guatemala and initiated them into the works of civilization, thus becoming the founder of the city of S. Domingo de Vera Paz, soon erected into a diocese, of which he was elected first bishop, in 1561. He died, however, on 1 April 1562, even before receiving the pontifical bulls, during a journey to Guatemala. From him we have a bibliographical study on the Dominicans in Peru, published in 1908.