FILIPPUGGI, ALESSANDRO FRANCESCO SAVERIO. — Jesuit missionary, born at Macerata on 5 January 1632, died at Macao on 15 August 1692. Received into the novitiate at Rome in 1651, he departed for the missions of China in 1660. Very devoted to St. Francis Xavier, whose name he had assumed after a miraculous healing, he worked diligently in Portugal and at Macao to locate letters of the Saint, which were later included in the editions prepared by Fr. Pierre Poussines.
Having arrived in China in 1663, F. served as rector and master of novices at Macao (1663–70), missionary in the Canton district (1671–79), provincial at Macao for the province of Japan (1680–83), superior at Canton (1683–88), visitor for the provinces of Japan and China (1688–91), and from 1690 also provincial for Japan. A skilled sinologist, he defended his confreres in the controversy over Chinese rites: *Præludium ad plenum disquisitionem ab honum vel mala fide impugnetur opiniones et prava missionariorum Societatis Iesu in regno Sinarium ad ciu- Confucii et defunctorum pertinentes* (Paris 1700). *Una Sagitta retorta* (1683) remains in manuscript, as do many letters. A letter to Poussines is printed in the *Monumenta Xaveriana* (I, Madrid 1900, pp. 941–44).