RICCI, VITTORIO. - Dominican missionary, b. at S. Maria a Cintoia (near Florence) on 18 Jan. 1621, d. at Parian (a suburb of Manila) on 17 Feb. 1685.
He studied at Fiesole, then at Rome, where in 1643 he met G. B. Morales. In 1648 he set out as a missionary to the Philippines. After years of apostolate among the Chinese of Parian, in July 1655 he landed at Amoy (Fukien, China). For more than a decade he devoted himself to the evangelization of southern China and of Formosa amid difficulties of every kind, and he began, on behalf of abandoned children, what two centuries later would be called the work of the Holy Childhood. He was vicar provincial of China, apostolic prefect of Formosa and southern China, and also undertook delicate political missions between China and Formosa and between Formosa and the Philippines. He spent the last fifteen years in the archipelago, often directing the convents and collecting memoirs. His principal work is the Istoria della missione de' FF. Predicatori nel regno de' China... dal 1676, used by later historians.
Bibliography6 worksQuétif-Echard, II, pp. 667-68; J. Ferrando, Historia de los pp. Dominicos en las Islas Filipinas y en sus misiones del Japon, China, Tung Ki
BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, II, pp. 667-68; J. Ferrando, Historia de los pp. Dominicos en las Islas Filipinas y en sus misiones del Japon, China, Tung King y Formosa, III, Madrid 1871, passim, especially pp. 531-42; T. M. Gentili, Memorie di un missionario domenicano nella Cina, I-II, Rome 1887-88, passim; [II. Ocio], Reseña biográfica de los religiosos de la provincia del S.mo Rosario de Filipinas, I, Manila 1891, pp. 461-64; Streit, Bibl., V, passim especially p. 823; M. S. Gillet, Il p. V. R. O. P. (1621-83), in I grandi missionari, 1st series, Rome 1939, pp. 177-205.
Redigonda, Abele. “Ricci, vittorio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 875. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/ricci-vittorio.
MLA
Redigonda, Abele. “Ricci, vittorio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 875. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ricci-vittorio.
BibTeX
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author = {Redigonda, Abele},
title = {Ricci, vittorio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
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address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ricci-vittorio}
}
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