Corrado dell'Assunta - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, p. 372

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CORRADO dell'ASSUNTA. - Discalced Carmelite and missionary, in the world Giov. Pietro Dinnard, b. in Vienna on 15 Oct. 1654. He professed the Carmelite religious life at Munich in Bavaria in 1674, and from 1684 was a missionary in Persia (superior from 1695), where he laboured greatly for the reunion of the Armenians.

On his return there, after a journey to Rome (1699), he was detained in Russia, at the court of the tsar, where he worked for the reunion of the Church of Russia with that of Rome. Authorized by the S. Congregation of Propaganda (22 June 1705), he recovered several churches in Narva. From 1710 he devoted himself in Poland to the return of schismatics to the Catholic faith and to the

conversion of heretics. Having returned to his Austrian province, he d. at Sanct Pölten on 9 Nov. 1723.

BIBL.: Anon., A Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia and the Papal Mission of the 17th and 18th centuries, II, Londra 1939, pp. 835-37; Ambrosius a S. Theresia, Nomenclator Min. Ord. Carmelit. Discalc., Roma 1944, pp. 100-101.

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