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5 days ago · Alessandro Valignano, the new regional manager ("Visitor") of the order, came to Macao in 1578–1579 and established St. Paul's College to begin training the missionaries in Chinese language and culture. He requested assistance from the orders' members in Goa in bringing over suitably talented linguists to staff the college and begin the ...
Jun 28, 2024 · According to legend, he first arrived to Japan to serve priest Alessandro Valignano. Word of his exploits would make their way to Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga, who hired him as a samurai and gave him the name Yasuke.
Jun 26, 2024 · What is known definitively is that Yasuke arrived in Japan in 1579 with an Italian Jesuit missionary, Alessandro Valignano, possibly as Valignano’s bodyguard. It is not known, however, whether Yasuke was enslaved or free at that time.
Jun 21, 2024 · As Meynard notes, CSP was born out of the Rites Controversy (1645–1705), a period of internal Catholic debates and challenges to Alessandro Valignano (1539–1606) and Matteo Ricci’s (1552–1610) missionary approach.
Hunting down Jesuit Templars outside of Japan (like Alessandro Valignano, who is the one who delivers Yasuke to Nobunaga and happens to die in Macau, China, a port city accessible via Japan, in 1606).
Jun 13, 2024 · Allí pasó al servicio de Alessandro Valignano, general de todos los jesuitas del extremo oriente y un hombre poderoso que ambicionaba convertir el vecino imperio de Japón en una nación católica.
Jun 24, 2024 · Nobunaga aimed to unify Japan and sought to incorporate knowledge from foreign powers. During this time, the missionary Alessandro Valignano visited Nobunaga for an audience. It is recorded that yasuke accompanied him as a slave.
