CAVAZZI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO, da MONTECUCOLI. - Born on 13 Oct. 1621, he entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin of the ancient province of Bologna in 1639. He was one of the most enterprising and tireless missionaries of the Congo (1654-67); worn out by his labors, he returned to his homeland; but Propaganda begged him to take up the work again as prefect of the mission (1670). Reduced to the last extremity, he disembarked at Genoa, where he died on 21 Jan. 1680.

Edited by Fr. Fortunato Alamandini da Bologna, his extensive Istorica descrizione dei tre regni Congo, Matamba et Angola... was published in that city in 1687, of primary importance for the history, geography and ethnography of those regions (2nd ed. Milan 1690, 3rd ed. Tivoli 1931). In the public library of Evora (Portugal), ms. 116, 2-1, an unpublished work is preserved: Vite dei Min. Cappuccini morti nelle missioni d'Ethiopia [West Africa Congo] from the year 1645 up to the year 1677.

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BIBL.: P. Paladini, Giannantonio C. missionario al Congo, Modena 1940; Felice da Mareto, Missionari Capp. della provincia parmense, 2nd ed., ibid. 1942, pp. 20-31; Clemente da Terzorio, Le missioni dei Min. Cappuccini, X, Rome 1938, pp. 457, 473-90, 507-10, 531-33; Collectanea franc., 13 (1943), pp. 176-77.

Ilarino da Milano

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Cavazzi, Giovanni Antonio, da Montecuccoli

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