MONTOURI, Luigi. — Born at Praiano di Amalfi on 17 Oct. 1798, died at Naples on 8 May 1857. He entered the Vincentian missionaries at Naples in 1816. In 1839 he joined Sapeto (q.v.) and Bl. Giustino De Jacobis (q.v.), who had been sent by the Propaganda to Abyssinia. After working for some time at Gondar and attempting in vain to penetrate among the Galla (1840), he returned to Tigray, where De Jacobis had remained, and from there went on to Khartoum.
There he founded (1841) and directed a flourishing college for the indigenous people, from which he hoped to draw good “catechists” who would facilitate the work of penetration among the tribes of central Africa. He also opened a school “for white, black and mulatto children.” Both school and college were flourishing in 1849, when M., gravely weakened in health, was forced to return to Italy. He spent his last years in Naples.