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LOBO, JERONIMO (1593-1678)

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LOBO, JERONIMO (1593-1678) , Jesuit missionary, was See also:born in See also:Lisbon, and entered the See also:Order of Jesus at the See also:age of sixteen. In 1621 he was ordered as a missionary to See also:India, and in 1622 he arrived at See also:Goa. With the intention of proceeding to See also:Abyssinia, whose See also:Negus (See also:emperor) Segued had been converted to See also:Roman Catholicism by Pedro See also:Paez, he See also:left India in 1624. He disembarked on the See also:coast of See also:Mombasa, and attempted to reach his destination through the Galla See also:country, but was forced to return. In 1625 he set out again, accompanied by .Mendez, the See also:patriarch of See also:Ethiopia, and. eight missionaries. The party landed on the coast of the Red See also:Sea, and Lobo settled in Abyssinia as See also:superintendent of the See also:missions in See also:Tigre. He remained there until See also:death deprived the Catholics of their See also:protector, the emperor Segued. Forced by persecution to leave the See also:kingdom, in 1634 Lobo and his companions See also:fell into the hands of the See also:Turks at See also:Massawa, who sent him to India to procure a See also:ransom for his imprisoned See also:fellow-missionaries. In this he was successful, but could not induce the Portuguese See also:viceroy to send an armament against Abyssinia. See also:Intent upon accomplishing this cherished project, he embarked for See also:Portugal, and after he had been See also:ship-wrecked on the coast of See also:Natal, and captured by pirates, arrived at Lisbon. Neither at this See also:city, however, nor at See also:Madrid and See also:Rome, was any countenance given to Lobo's See also:plan. He accordingly returned to India in 164o, and was elected See also:rector, and afterwards provincial, of the See also:Jesuits at Goa.

After some years he returned to his native city, and died there on the 29th of See also:

January 1678. Lobo wrote an See also:account of his travels in Portuguese, which appears never to have been printed, but is deposited in the monastery of St Roque, Lisbon. Balthazar Telles made large use of the See also:information therein in his Historia geral da Ethiopia a Alta (See also:Coimbra, 1660), often erroneously attributed to Lobo (see Machado's Bibliotheca Lusitana). Lobo's own narrative was translated from a MS. copy into See also:French in 1728 by the See also:Abbe See also:Joachim le See also:Grand, under the See also:title of Voyage historique d'Abissinie. In 1669 a See also:translation by See also:Sir See also:Peter Wyche of several passages from a MS. account of Lobo's travels was published by the Royal Society (translated in M. Thevenot's Relation See also:des voyages in 1673). An See also:English abridgment of Le Grand's edition by Dr See also:Johnson was published in 1735 (reprinted 1789). In a Memoire justificatif en rehabilitation des peres See also:Pierre Paez et See also:Jerome Lobo, Dr C. T. See also:Beke maintains against See also:Bruce the accuracy of Lobo's statements as to the source of the Abai See also:branch of the See also:Nile. See A. de Backer, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus (ed. C.

Sommervogel, iv., 1893).

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