João Cabral (Jesuit)
João Cabral (* 1599 in Celorico da Beira ; † July 4, 1669 in Goa ; in English sources also John Cabral ) was a Jesuit missionary from Portugal .
Life
Cabral joined the Jesuit order at the age of 16.
In 1624 he went to India . From April 1626 Cabral traveled with Estêvão Cacella on the Portuguese trade routes from Goa via Hugli , Dhaka to Koch Bihar . From there they both traveled on to the Bhutanese city of Paro , where they stayed from February to October 1627. Cacella and Cabral were the first representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in Bhutan and the first Europeans to reach the country. Both met Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel there. They sent letters to Father Alberto Laertius in Malabar, in which they reported about their trip. These were not rediscovered until 1924 in the archives of the Jesuit order in Rome.
Cabral later evangelized in Kochi , Tonkin , Malacca , Macau and Japan, among others .
Web links
- Nancy M. Gettelman: Letter of First Westener to Visit Bhutan (English; PDF; 261 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal and the visit of the Portuguese Jesuit Patres Father Estevão Cacella and Father João Cabral in 1627 . Pro Bhutan eV (English; PDF; 992 kB), accessed on April 18, 2017
- ↑ Cornelius Wessels: Early Jesuit Travelers in Central Asia 1603-1721. The Hague 1924, pp. 120-163.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cabral, João |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cabral, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese Jesuit and missionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1599 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celorico da Beira , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1669 |
| Place of death | Goa , India |