GIORGI DA GHEEL. - Capuchin missionary and martyr of the old Flemish-Belgian province, b. at Oevel, near Geel (Campine), in Aug. 1616, entered the novitiate at Louvain already a priest on 11 Nov. 1642, d. at Ngondo Mbata ca. 8 Dec. 1652.
Appointed to the Congo mission from 1648, he landed at Pinda on 29 June 1651. From the ministry in the city of San Salvador he passed to the residence of Matari. More than a thousand baptisms of natives are attributed to him. He arranged the first Vocabularium latinum, hispanicum et congense (autograph ms. in the National Library of Rome), which had probably been composed by his confreres; in the recent edition by J. Van Wing-C. Penders, Le plus ancien dictionnaire baptis (Louvain 1928) it was transformed into a Congolese-French-Flemish dictionary. Passing through Ulolo toward the end of Nov. 1652, he sharply reproved those Christians who had returned to idolatrous practices, forbidden also by civil law, and he burned their images and instruments; but those concerned beat him, leaving him near death. Venerated as a martyr, the informative processes were opened at the Curia of Malines in Aug. 1936.
Bibliography4 worksEdouard d'Alençon, Essai de bibliographie capucino-congolaise, in Neerlandia franc., 1 (1914), pp. 41-42; Clemente da Terzorio, Le missioni
BIBL.: Edouard d'Alençon, Essai de bibliographie capucino-congolaise, in Neerlandia franc., 1 (1914), pp. 41-42; Clemente da Terzorio, Le missioni dei Minori Cappuccini, X, Rome 1938, pp. 434, 445; Hildebrand de Hoeglede, Le martyr G. de G. et les débuts de la mission du Congo, Antwerp 1940; id., La question de la béatification de G. de G., in Vox Minorum, 1 (1947), pp. 263-76.
Ilarino da Milano. “Giorgio da Gheel.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 447. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/giorgio-da-gheel.
MLA
Ilarino da Milano. “Giorgio da Gheel.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 447. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/giorgio-da-gheel.
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author = {Ilarino da Milano},
title = {Giorgio da Gheel},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {447},
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publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/giorgio-da-gheel}
}
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