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PEDRO PAEZ (1564-1622)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 449 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAEZ (1564-1622)  , Jesuit missionary to See also:Abyssinia, was See also:born at Olmedo in Old See also:Castile in 1564 . Having entered the Society of Jesus, he was set apart for See also:foreign See also:mission service, and sent to See also:Goa in 1588 . Within a See also:year he and a See also:fellow missionary were dispatched from that See also:place to Abyssinia to See also:act as spiritual See also:directors to the Portuguese residents . On his way thither, he See also:fell into the hands of pirates at Dhofar and was sent to Sanaa, See also:capital of the See also:Yemen, where he was detained for seven years by the See also:pasha as a slave . Having been redeemed by his See also:order in 1596, he spent some years in mission See also:work on the See also:west See also:coast of See also:India, and it was not until 1603 that he again set out for Abyssinia, and landed at the See also:port of See also:Massawa . At the headquarters of his order, in Fremona, he soon acquired the two See also:chief dialects of the See also:country, translated a See also:catechism, and set about the See also:education of some Abyssinian See also:children . He also established a reputation as a preacher, and having been summoned to See also:court, succeeded in vanquishing the native priests and in converting Za-Denghel, the See also:negus, who wrote to the See also:pope and the See also:king of See also:Spain for more missionaries, an act of zeal which involved him in See also:civil See also:war with the Abyssinian priests (who dreaded the See also:influence of See also:Paez) and ultimately cost him his See also:life (Oct . 1604) . Paez, who is said to have been the first See also:European to visit the source of the See also:Blue See also:Nile, died of See also:fever in 1622 . In addition to the See also:translation of the Catechism, Paez is supposed to be the author of a See also:treatise De Abyssinorum erroribus and a See also:history of See also:Ethiopia (ed . C . Beccari in Rerum aethiopicarum scriptores occidentales inediti a saeculo XVI. ad XIX .

(1905) . See A. de Backer, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus (ed . C . Sommervogel) vi . (1895) ; W . D . Cooley in Bulletin de la societe de geographie (1872), 6th See also:

series, vol. iii .

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