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Criminali, Antonio

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CRIMINALI, ANTONIO. - Protomartyr of the Society of Jesus, b. at Sissa, near Parma, on 7 Feb. 1520, he was received into the Order by St. Ignatius himself in Apr. 1542 and sent by him to Portugal. Ordained priest at Coimbra on 6 Jan. 1544, he embarked for India with Fr. Niccolò Lancellotti, landing at Goa in Sept. of the same year. St. Francis Xavier assigned him to the missions of Cape Comorin on the Fishery Coast. Surprised by an invasion of the Badagi, C. was killed, probably around the middle of May 1549.

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BIBL.: E. Massara, Del p. A. C., parmigiano, protomartire della Compagnia di Gesù, Parma 1899; G. Schurhammer, Leben und Briefe A. C.'s., des Erstlingsmärtyrers der Gesellschaft Jesu, in Archivum histor. S. I., 5 (1936), pp. 231-67.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 872.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Criminali, antonio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 872. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/criminali-antonio.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Criminali, antonio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 872. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/criminali-antonio.

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  author    = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
  title     = {Criminali, antonio},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {872},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/criminali-antonio}
}

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