Angelis - Angelis, Jeronimo de

Japanese: アンジェリス - Ａｎｇｅｌｉｓ，Ｊｅｒｏｎｉｍｏｄｅ

Year of death: 13th October 1623 (4th December 1623)
Year of birth: 1568
He was the first European to travel to Ezochi. He was born in Sicily. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1586, came to Japan as a priest in 1602, and was assigned to the temple in Fushimi the following year. In 1613, he established a missionary station in Sunpu (Shizuoka City). In 1617, after the ban on Christianity, he was invited by Goto Juan to travel to Oshu Mibun (Mizusawa City, Iwate Prefecture) to comfort the exiled Christians of Tsugaru. In 1618, he traveled to Matsumae in Ezo and made his first report on Ezo Island. In 1619, he traveled again to Matsumae and visited the Christians at the gold mine at Sengen-dake in Matsumae, and at the request of Provincial Superior Pacheco, he created a 13-item report on Ezochi and a map, which was translated into various European countries. At the end of the same year, he turned to Edo for missionary work, and two years later he was martyred at Sadanotsuji in Edo together with Father Galves of the Franciscan Order.

(Takashi Gonoi)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：元和9.10.13(1623.12.4)
生年：1568
蝦夷地渡航の最初のヨーロッパ人。シチリア島出身。1586年イエズス会に入り,慶長7(1602)年司祭として来日,翌年伏見の住院に赴任。同16年駿府(静岡市)に布教所を設置。キリシタン禁令後の同20年,後藤寿庵の招きで奥州見分(岩手県水沢市)に赴き津軽の流刑キリシタンを慰問。元和4(1618)年蝦夷松前に渡り初めて蝦夷島について報告,同7年再渡航して松前・千軒岳の金山にキリシタンを訪ね,管区長パシェコの求めにより13項目からなる蝦夷地報告と地図一葉を作成,この報告書はヨーロッパ各国で翻訳された。同年末江戸布教に転じ,2年後フランシスコ会のガルベス神父らと江戸札ノ辻で殉教。<参考文献>H.チースリク編『北方探検記』

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