CARDIM, ANTONIO FRANCISCO. - Portuguese missionary, b. at Viana do Alemtejo in 1595 or 1596, d. at Macao on 20 April 1659. Having entered the Society of Jesus at Evora on 24 February 1611, he set out for the East in 1618. After completing his studies at Goa, he went to Macao in order to pass into Japan, but, finding the way closed, he worked as a missionary in the Chinese province of Kwantung (1623-25), then in Siam. Recalled to Macao, he held the office of master of novices and, for four years, that of rector of the college. In 1638 he was sent to Rome as procurator of the Japanese province, and then returned to Goa in 1649. Captured by the Dutch while he was on his way to Macao and held prisoner for three years, he died in that city.
He published various hagiographic pamphlets during his stay in Europe: Relazione della gloriosa morte di quattro ambasciatori portoghesi della città di Macao con altri cinquantasette christiani... decapitati tutti per la fede a Nangasqui (Rome 1643; in Portuguese and French: 1643, in Latin and Flemish: 1644); Fasciculus e Iaponiae floribus suo adhuc madentibus sanguine (Rome 1646; in Portuguese: 1650); Catalogus regularium qui in Iaponiae Regno...
in odium fidei violenta morte sublati sunt (Rome 1646) and others. Important is his Relatione della provincia del Giappone (Rome 1645; various Italian and French editions), which describes the state of Christianity not only in Japan, but also in Tonkin, Siam, Cambodia and on the island of Hainan; a map of Japan is annexed to it, often reproduced. The labors and struggles of the Jesuit missionaries in those same countries (and also in Annam) are recounted at greater length in another writing of Cardim, which was published only in 1894 at Lisbon by Luciano Cordeiro: Batalhas da Companhia de Jesus na sua gloriosa provincia do Japão
Bibliography5 worksSommervogel, II, coll. 738-41; VIII, col. 1992; Streit, Bibl., V, p. 549 and passim; E. Papinot, Notes sur la carte du p. C., in Revue d'his
BIBL.: Sommervogel, II, coll. 738-41; VIII, col. 1992; Streit, Bibl., V, p. 549 and passim; E. Papinot, Notes sur la carte du p. C., in Revue d'histoire des missions, 9 (1922), pp. 38-45; L. Pfister, Notices biographiques... de l'ancienne mission de Chine, I, Shanghai 1932, pp. 183-84 Edmondo Lamalle
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Cardim, antonio francisco.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 778–779. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cardim-antonio-francisco.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Cardim, antonio francisco.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 778–779. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cardim-antonio-francisco.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_cardim_antonio_francisco,
author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Cardim, antonio francisco},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {778--779},
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/cardim-antonio-francisco}
}
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