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GIULIO See also: Italian Jesuit missionary, was See also: born at See also: Brescia
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He entered the Society of Jesus and was sent to the See also: East
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He landed at Macao in 161o, and while waiting a favourable opportunity to penetrate into See also: China busied himself for three years in teaching See also: mathematics
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His See also: thirty years' residence in China was marked by unceasing zeal and considerable success
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He adopted the dress and See also: manners of the country, was the first Christian missionary in Kiang-si, and built several churches in Fo-Kien
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He wrote in See also: Chinese a See also: Life of Christ (See also: Pekin, 1635-1637, 8 vols.; often reprinted, e.g. in 1887 in 3 vols., and used even by See also: Protestant missionaries) and a cosmography (Iche fang See also: wai ki Hang-chow, 1623, 6 vols.), which was translated into Manchu under the title The True Origin of 10,000 Things, a copy of which was sent from Pekin to See also: Paris in 1789
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See also: Alenio died at Fu-chow in 1649
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For bibliography see de Backer and Sommervogel, Bibl.de la Cie. de Jesus, i
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158-160
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