Lodovico Buglio

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Lodovico Buglio
Lodovico Buglio
Born(1606-01-26)January 26, 1606
Mineo, Kingdom of Sicily
Died7 October 1682(1682-10-07) (aged 76)
Beijing, Manchu Empire
Burial placeZhalan Cemetery
OccupationItalian Jesuit active in China

Lodovico Buglio (1606–1682), Chinese name Li Leisi (

Jesuit mathematician and theologian. He was the first Catholic missionary to reach Sichuan
, the then-westernmost province in China.

Career

Buglio was born at

Jesuit and studied the Chinese language in the late 1630s at speed, using the abbreviated course of study.[2]

China

Buglio preached the Gospel in the provinces of

Hooge, he was taken to Beijing in 1648.[4] Here, after a short captivity, he was left free to exercise his ministry. He suffered in the persecution which was carried on during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor
.

Buglio collaborated with Fathers Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Ferdinand Verbiest and Gabriel de Magalhães in reforming the Chinese calendar, and shared with them the confidence of the emperor. He died in Beijing, on 7 October 1682, and was given a state funeral. He was buried in the Jesuits' Zhalan Cemetery in Beijing.

Works

Qianlong era
).

Buglio both spoke and wrote Chinese. A list of his works in Chinese, more than eighty volumes, written for the most part to explain and defend the Christian religion, is given in Carlos Sommervogel. Besides Parts I and III of the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, he translated into Chinese the Roman Missal (Peking, 1670) the Breviary and the Ritual (ibid, 1674 and 1675). These translations were part of the Jesuit project to introduce a liturgy in the Chinese tongue. This plan was approved by Pope Paul V, who, on 26 March 1615, granted to regularly ordained Chinese priests the faculty of using their own language in the liturgy and administrations of the sacraments; this faculty was never used. Father Philippe Couplet in 1681 tried to obtain a renewal of it from Rome, but was not successful.

See also

References

  1. ^ He, Jianye (10 January 2008). "Bridging the East and the West: A Case Study of Personal Name Authority Control in Resource Sharing and Overseas Chinese Librarians' Role". Journal of East Asian Libraries: 5.
  2. ISBN 9780674028814
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  3. ISBN 978-0-674-03036-7
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  4. ^ "Lodovico Buglio: B: By Person: Stories: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity". bdcconline.net. Retrieved 2014-04-04.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Louis Buglio". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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