Pedro de Gante

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Holy Brother Pedro de Gante

Pedro de Gante (* 1486 in Geraardsbergen , † 19th April 1572 in Mexico City ) was a missionary of the Franciscan in Mexico . He is also known under the name Pedro de Mura or his birth name Pieter van der Moere . He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Pictorial catechism for Indians
1553 Doctrina Christiana manuscript from the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas , Austin

Pedro de Gante was born in Flanders , which like Spain belonged to the Habsburg Empire . He was a relative of Charles V , who in 1523 allowed him to travel to the colonies of New Spain with a group of Franciscans, the first missionaries in the New World . In Mexico, Brother Pedro taught the Indians the catechism using a sign language he developed (“pictorial catechism”). Later he began a great campaign with his Indian students to convert the local population. He learned Nahuatl , the Aztec language, and wrote the Doctrina Christiana . Brother Pedro founded many churches, schools and hospitals near Mexico City, one of his greatest accomplishments being the establishment of the School of San Jose de los Naturales. The school was the first educational institution founded by Europeans in America.

In 1988 Pedro de Gante was canonized by Pope John Paul II . De Gante is in the list of the most important Belgians ( De Grootste Belg ) in 99th place.

Works

  • Catecismo de la doctrina cristiana con jeroglíficos, para la enseñanza de los indios de México : Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Códice 1257B.
  • Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Mexicana. Per signum crucis. Icamachiotl cruz yhuicpain toya chua Xitech momaquixtili Totecuiyoc diose. Ica inmotocatzin. Tetatzin yhuan Tepilizin yhuan Spiritus Sancti. Amen Jesús (first published around 1547, Mexico: Juan Pablos; 1553, Amberes; 1553, Mexico: Juan Pablos, 1555). Reprinted with comments by Ernesto de la Torre Villar (Mexico, 1981).
  • Catecismo de la doctrina cristiana con jeroglíficos, para la enseñanza de los indios de México , reprinted with comments by Federico Navarro (Madrid, 1970) / Justino Cortés Castellanos, El catecismo en pictogramas de Fr. Pedro de Gante (Madrid, 1987).
  • Cartas, versos religiosos en mejicano , ed. En. Joaquín García Icazbalceta, Códice franciscano (Mexico, 1941), 212 f.

literature

  • Ilan Rachum, Atlantis-Verlag 1991: Encyclopedia of the Renaissance , ISBN 9783761107256 .
  • Massimo Leone: (In) efficacy of words and images in sixteenth-century Franciscan missions in Mesoamerica , Department of Philosophy, University of Turin

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Massimo Leone, (In) efficacy of words and images in sixteenth-century Franciscan missions in Mesoamerica , p. 11
  2. ↑ Ilan Rachum: Encyclopedia of the Renaissance , p. 179

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personal data
SURNAME Pedro de Gante
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pieter van der Moere; Pedro de Mura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan Missionary in Mexico
DATE OF BIRTH 1486
PLACE OF BIRTH Geraardsbergen
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1572
Place of death Mexico city