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PEDRO PAEZ (1564-1622) , Jesuit missionary to See also: Abyssinia, was See also: born at Olmedo in Old See also: Castile in 1564
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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
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Within a See also: year he and a See also: fellow missionary were dispatched from that place to Abyssinia to See also: act as spiritual See also: directors to the Portuguese residents
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On his way thither, he See also: fell into the hands of pirates at Dhofar and was sent to Sanaa, capital of the See also: Yemen, where he was detained
for seven years by the See also: pasha as a slave
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Having been redeemed by his See also: order in 1596, he spent some years in mission See also: work on the 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
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At the headquarters of his order, in Fremona, he soon acquired the two chief dialects of the country, translated a catechism, and set about the See also: education of some Abyssinian See also: children
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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 war with the Abyssinian priests (who dreaded the influence of Paez) and ultimately cost him his See also: life (Oct
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1604)
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Paez, who is said to have been the first See also: European to visit the source of the Blue See also: Nile, died of fever in 1622
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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 Ethiopia (ed
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C
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Beccari in Rerum aethiopicarum scriptores occidentales inediti a saeculo XVI. ad XIX
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(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 series, vol. iii . |
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