JANN, ADELHELM DA STANS. - Swiss Capuchin historian, b. in the village of Alpnach on 21 Feb. 1876, d. in Lucerne on 30 Dec. 1945. He entered the novitiate of Lucerne on 7 Sept. 1895, took his degree at Fribourg (1909) in philosophical and historical disciplines, which he taught for 35 years at the College of Stans, an esteemed preacher and learned lecturer.

In the work Die katholischen Missionen in Indien, China und Japan (Paderborn 1915) he studied their organization under the Portuguese patronage from the 15th to the 18th century. Among the numerous writings of historical research, the Monumenta Anastasiana (5 vols., Lucerne 1939-48) stand out, in which he systematically collected all the vast and valuable documentation concerning the servant of God Anastasius Hartmann (v.) and the missions in India. He illustrated the biography of his confrere, the martyr Blessed Apollinaris Morel of Posat.

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BIBL.: P. Aurelian, A. R. P. Adhelhelmus J., in Sanct Fidelis, 33 (1946), pp. 67-70; Memoriae A.R.P. Dr. Adhelhelmi J. Vita et scripta, in Monumenta Anastasiana, V. Lucerne 1948, pp. IX-XXII.

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