ARRIAGA, PABLO-JOSÉ. - Spanish Jesuit, b. in 1564 at Ocaña (or at Vergara?), d. in 1622. Having entered religious life in 1579 and departed for Peru in 1585, he was rector of the college of Lima and of that of Arequipa, and founded the college of Cercado for the sons of caciques. From 1617 to 1620 he took an active part, together with Fr. F. Avendaño, in the campaign against the idolatrous superstitions secretly preserved by the indigenous people, and published a practical as well as historical treatise: Extirpación de la idolatría del Perú (Lima 1621). Sent to Rome, he died in a shipwreck near Cuba (1622).
He translated into Spanish the Tratado de la perfección religiosa by Fr. Luca Pinelli (Valladolid 1604, reprinted several times), wrote a Directorio espiritual (Lima 1609) for the college of Lima, and a treatise, Rhetoris christiani partes septem (Lione 1916). The manuscript of the life of Fr. Giacomo Álvarez de Paz perished with him in the shipwreck. His interesting annual letters from the province of Peru are published in the Relaciones geográficas de las Indias (II, Madrid 1883, appendix, pp. LXVI-CXI).