CABRAL, JOÃO. - Portuguese missionary, b. at Celorico (province of Beira) in 1599, d. at Goa on 4 July 1669. A Jesuit in 1615, he embarked in 1624 for India. In 1626, associated with Fr. Cacella (v. CACELLA, ESTEVÃO), who had been charged with seeking the route to the kingdom of Utsang in Tibet, he explored Bhutan with him and reached the capital of Utsang, Shigatse (1628), where he returned a second time (1631-32), after Cacella's death. His missionary career then continued through many journeys: he taught at Cochin (1633-34), worked in Ceylon, was an associate of the provincial of Goa, rector for some months at Malacca, rector of the college of Macao, and at the same time vice-provincial of the province of Japan, whose fathers had been expelled from the archipelago (1645-46); visitor of the mission of Tonkin, provincial at Macao of the Japanese province (1649-53). He then returned to India, where he was, among other things, a missionary for five years at Salsette.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, II, col. 494; VIII, col. 1956; C. Wessels, Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, The Hague 1924, pp. 120-63.

Edmondo Lamalle

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Cabral, João

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