FILIPPUCCI, ALESSANDRO FRANCESCO SAVERIO. - Jesuit missionary, b. at Macerata on 5 Jan. 1632, d. at Macao on 15 Aug. 1692. Received into the novitiate of Rome in 1651, he set out in 1660 for the missions of China. Very devoted to St. Francis Xavier, whose name he had taken after a miraculous recovery, he worked hard, in Portugal and at Macao, to trace letters of the Saint, later inserted in the editions made by Fr. Pietro Poussines.
Having reached China in 1663, F. was rector and master of novices at Macao (1663-70), missionary in the district of Canton (1671-79), provincial at Macao for the province of Japan (1680-83), superior at Canton (1683-1688), visitor for the provinces of Japan and China (1688-91) and at the same time, from 1690, provincial for Japan. A skilled sinologist, he defended his confreres in the controversy over the Chinese rites: Praeludium ad plenum disquisitionem an bonum vel mala fide impugnantur opinionum et praxe missionariorum Societatis Iesu in regno Sinarum ad cultum Confucri et defunctorum pertinentes (Paris 1700). A Sagitta retorta (1683) has remained in manuscript, as have many letters. A letter to Poussines is printed in the Monumenta Xaveriana (I, Madrid 1900, pp. 941-44).
Bibliography5 worksSommervogel, III, coll. 734-35; IX, 339-40; Streit, Bibl., V, pp. 786, 878, 893-94; L. Pfister, Notices biographiques... de l'ancienne missi
BIBL.: Sommervogel, III, coll. 734-35; IX, 339-40; Streit, Bibl., V, pp. 786, 878, 893-94; L. Pfister, Notices biographiques... de l'ancienne mission de Chine, I, Sciangai 1932, pp. 378-80; G. Schurhammer-J. Wicki, Epist. 1. Francisci Xaverii, I (Monum, Historica S. I., 67), Roma 1944, pp. 92-98.
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Filippucci, alessandro francesco saverio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1331. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/filippucci-alessandro-francesco-saverio.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Filippucci, alessandro francesco saverio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1331. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/filippucci-alessandro-francesco-saverio.
BibTeX
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author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Filippucci, alessandro francesco saverio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1331},
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/filippucci-alessandro-francesco-saverio}
}
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