BRANCATI, FRANCESCO. - Missionary in China, b. in Palermo in 1607, received into the Society of Jesus in 1623. Having arrived in China in 1637, he carried out almost all of his activity in Kiang-nan, in Shanghai and the neighboring cities. There he gave the Church a magnificent development, with an average of more than a thousand baptisms a year. A characteristic of his work was the organization of Congregations for the various classes of the faithful. In 1665, all the missionaries were summoned to Peking and from there exiled to Canton. B. died in that city on 26 Apr. 1671, shortly after the sentence that restored freedom to the fathers.
He wrote various catechetical works in Chinese, almost all of them still being reprinted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as also his Chinese translation of Bellarmine's Ascensione a Dio per la scala delle creature. It was published posthumously in Europe: De Sinensium ritibus politicis acta, seu r. p. Francici B. S. I. apud Sinas per annos 34 missionarii responsio apologetica ad r. p. Dominicum Navarrette O. P., (2 vols., Paris 1700).
Bibliography4 worksSommervogel, II, coll. 81-82; VIII, col. 916; Streit, Bibl., V, pp. 817-18 and passim; L. Pfister, Notices biographiques... de l'ancienne Mi
BIBL.: Sommervogel, II, coll. 81-82; VIII, col. 916; Streit, Bibl., V, pp. 817-18 and passim; L. Pfister, Notices biographiques... de l'ancienne Mission de Chine, I, Shanghai 1932, pp. 223-30.
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Brancati, francesco.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 22–23. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/brancati-francesco.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Brancati, francesco.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 22–23. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/brancati-francesco.
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@incollection{ec3_brancati_francesco,
author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Brancati, francesco},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {22--23},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/brancati-francesco}
}
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