BERNINI, GIUSEPPE MARIA da GARGNANO. - Illustrious missionary of Tibet. Born on 2 September 1709 into a noble family, he entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin of the ancient province of Brescia in 1726 (1731?). Well furnished with studies, he set out for the Tibet mission, arriving at Patna in 1739; here he stayed until his establishment in Lhasa in May 1742, where he remained despite persecution. In December 1745 he founded a flourishing mission at Bettiah, in Nepal, which he, after having been superior at Chandernagor from December 1746 to August 1750, directed until his death, which occurred on 15 January 1761.
His confrere, the missionary Cassiano Beligatti da Macerata (v.), wrote his Memorie, which, completed by Fr. Silvio da Brescia also with letters of B. himself, were published by Moroni at Verona in 1767. He composed various works in the Hindi and Urdu languages for the religious instruction of the converts, translated into the Italian language, in order to facilitate the doctrinal work of the missionaries, the sacred and religious Brahminical books, compiled a voluminous dictionary "Hindi-latino-italicum" and another "Italico-Hindi". A Dialogo tra un cristiano e un pagano of his has been published, in Nagari characters, and a Descrizione del Nepal.
Bibliography2 worksStreit, Bibl., VI, pp. 137-38; Ilarino da Milano, Biblioteca dei Minori cappuccini di Lombardia, Florence 1937, p. 213.
BIBL.: Streit, Bibl., VI, pp. 137-38; Ilarino da Milano, Biblioteca dei Minori cappuccini di Lombardia, Florence 1937, p. 213.
Ilarino da Milano. “Bernini, giuseppe maria da gargnano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 1452–1453. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bernini-giuseppe-maria-da-gargnano.
MLA
Ilarino da Milano. “Bernini, giuseppe maria da gargnano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1452–1453. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bernini-giuseppe-maria-da-gargnano.
BibTeX
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author = {Ilarino da Milano},
title = {Bernini, giuseppe maria da gargnano},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1452--1453},
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publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bernini-giuseppe-maria-da-gargnano}
}
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