Azevedo, Luiz De
Azevedo, Luiz de
(1573 -1634 ) Apostle of the Agaus (Nubian tribe), born at Carrazedo Montenegro, Portugal ; died Ethiopia. In 1588 he entered the Society of Jesus and in 1605 went to Ethiopia, where he spent 29 years on the mission. He compiled an Ethiopian grammar and translated the New Testament and other works into that tongue.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Azevedo, Luiz de
An Ethiopic missionary and scholar, born, according to probable narration of Franco (Imogem da Vertude em o Noviciado de Coimbra, 359-61), at Carrezedo Montenegro, in the Diocese of Braga, in Portugal, in 1573; died in Ethiopia in 1634. He became a Jesuit in 1588, and sailed for the Indies in 1592. In 1605 he began his missionary labours in Ethiopia, where he remained until his death. Azevedo was called the Apostle Agarus, and is justly reckoned among the most illustrious of the Doctors of the Church of Ethiopia, to which he reclaimed many schismatics. He translated into Chaldaic the commentaries of Father Toletus on the Epitles of St. Paul to the Romans and those of Francis Ribera on the Epitle of St. Paul to the Hebrews; the “Canonical Hours”, the “Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, and other works. He is the author of a grammer of Ethiopic language, and translated into the same tongue the New Testament, a Portughese catechism, instructions on the Apostle’s Creed, and other books of the same nature.
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Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Azevedo, Luiz De
a Portuguese missionary, was born in 1573 at Chaves, upon the frontier of Galicia. At the age of sixteen he entered the Order of Jesuits, and was sent to Goa to complete his studies. He was then appointed master of novices and rector at Tana. About 1604 he started for Abyssinia in company with Loreizo Romano, and there founded a school and converted to Christianity the king of the country, Seltame. He was perfectly acquainted with the different dialects of Abyssinia, particularly the Amharic. He died Feb. 22, 1634. Among other religious works, he made a translation of the New Test. into Amharic, a catechism in the same dialect, and a grammar in Amharic and Latin.
There were two others of the same name as the above-a Spanish monk of the Order of St. Augustine, a native of Medina Campo, who died in 1600, and who published Discursos Morales en las Fiestas de Nuestra Segiora (Valladolid, 1600); and a Portuguese Dominican who published a treatise on the education of children. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.