DE ANGELIS, FRANCESCO ANTONIO. – Jesuit, missionary, born in Naples in 1566, died in Calleà on 21 October 1622. Sent to Ethiopia, he was initially superior at Fremona (1604), whence in 1611 he went to Goggiam, to the king’s brother, Se' elà Crestós, whom he confirmed in the faith and who placed such trust and affection in him that he made him governor of the recently conquered Agaumeder. Among the Agau, who were still pagans, he succeeded in founding a school and a church. As a result of a fall into the Adia River, he contracted an illness that led to his death.
An expert in the Agau, Amharic, and Ethiopian languages, he translated into the latter the Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John; the commentary by Fr. B. Pereira on Genesis, that by Fr. G. Maldonado on the Gospels, and that by Fr. B. Viegas on the Apocalypse.