Names
Pedro Páez
Birth
1564
Period of Activity
He arrived in Ethiopia on 22 March 1603. He was succesful to convert King Susǝnyos in 20 May 1622 to Catholicism. He contributed to the early building projects of the mission. He authored several letters addressed to fellow Jesuits, friends and relatives in India and Europe. In his final years of his life, he authored an important book on Ethiopian history called História da Etiópia. (internal)
Death
He died on 20 May 1622 at Gorgora↗
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Names
- Pedro Páez
Dates
Period of activity: 1603
Occupation
missionary
Residence
He was in the court of Susǝnyos
Faith
Catholicism
Nationality
Spain
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Pereira, F. M. E., ed., 1892. Chronica de Susenyos, rei de Ethiopia, Tomo I: Texto ethiopico. Destinado à X sessão do Congresso Internacional dos Orientalistas, tr. F. M. E. Pereira, Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa (Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1892).
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Pereira, F. M. E., ed., 1900. Chronica de Susenyos, rei de Ethiopia, Tomo II: Traducção e notas. Destinado à X sessão do Congresso Internacional dos Orientalistas, tr. F. M. E. Pereira, Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa (Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1900).
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Boavida, I., H. Pennec, M. J. Ramos, and C. J. Tribe 2011. Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622, eds I. Boavida, H. Pennec, and M. J. Ramos, tr. C. J. Tribe, I, Hakluyt Society, Series III, 23 (London: Ashgate, 2011).
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Boavida, I., H. Pennec, M. J. Ramos, and C. J. Tribe 2011. Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622, eds I. Boavida, H. Pennec, and M. J. Ramos, tr. C. J. Tribe, II, Hakluyt Society, Series III, 24 (London: Ashgate, 2011).
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Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, A. 2010. ‘Páez, Pedro’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 89a–90b.
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