Enciclopedia Cattolica

John Peter of the Mother of God

GIOVANNI PIETRO DELLA MADRE DI DIO

Volume VI · p. 393 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

GIOVANNI PIETRO della MADRE DI DIO. - In the world Giovanni Chassagne, a Discalced Carmelite missionary, born in 1620 at Villefranche (diocese of Lyon), he made his profession on 6 July 1641 at Avignon; in 1655 he went to the Syrian mission, of which he was one of the most distinguished missionaries. After bringing very many heretics and schismatics into Catholic union, he died, a victim of charity, on 3 July 1669 at Giudaida (near Aleppo), while assisting cholera patients. Besides several accounts of the Syrian mission, he left in manuscript many catechetical and apologetic works in the Arabic language.

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GIOVANNI E PAOLO, saints, martyrs - The two Saints, fresco (second half of the 9th century), Rome, underground chamber of S. Maria in Via Lata.
GIOVANNI PIETRO DELLA MADRE DI DIO - JUPITER

BIBL.: Ambrosius a S. Teresia, Bibliographia Mission. Ord. Carm. Disc., Rome 1940, nos. 314-19, 346-47, 349; id., Nomenclator Mission., ibid. 1944, pp. 217-18. Ambrogio di Santa Teresa
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“GIOVANNI PIETRO DELLA MADRE DI DIO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 393. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/giovanni-pietro-della-madre-di-dio.