Also known as:
Latin: Jordanus Catalani, Jordanus Catalani de Sévérac
CATALANI (CATALANO), GIORDANO. - Born at Sévérac-le-Château on an unknown date, he entered the Order of St. Dominic and was a missionary in Persia. From there, having joined the four Franciscans, martyrs of Tana, he undertook the journey toward the Far East; forced, together with his colleagues, to land on the island of Salsette, he went to evangelize the north, and thus escaped the massacre and continued his apostolate in India until, in
In 1329, at the erection of the see of Quilon, he was elected its first bishop. He wrote two reports on the martyrdom of the four Franciscans, in 1331 and 1333, and Mirabilia descripta per fratrem Jordanum, Ord. Praedicatorum, oriundum de Severaco, in India maiari episcopum Columbensem, rich in data on the situation of the apostolate in India.
Bibliography3 worksA. Balme, Le ven. p. Jourdan, Lyon 1886; L. Lemmens, Die Heidenmissionen des Spätniststellers, Münster in Br. 1919, pp. 85-91; Streit, Bibl.
BIBL.: A. Balme, Le ven. p. Jourdan, Lyon 1886; L. Lemmens, Die Heidenmissionen des Spätniststellers, Münster in Br. 1919, pp. 85-91; Streit, Bibl., IV, pp. 50-51, 57-69.
Tragella, Giovanni Battista. “Catalani (Catalano), giordano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 1062–1063. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/catalani-catalano-giordano.
MLA
Tragella, Giovanni Battista. “Catalani (Catalano), giordano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1062–1063. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/catalani-catalano-giordano.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_catalani_catalano_giordano,
author = {Tragella, Giovanni Battista},
title = {Catalani (Catalano), giordano},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1062--1063},
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/catalani-catalano-giordano}
}
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