Pedro Páez
The Reverend Pedro Páez Jaramillo Roman Catholicism in Ethiopia | |
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Church | Catholic Church |
Ordained | c. 1588 |
Pedro Páez Jaramillo,
Páez' two-volume História da Etiópia (History of Ethiopia) is regarded by
Life
Páez was born in 1564 in the village of Olmeda de la Cebolla (now
In keeping with his
Upon his own recovery, Paez again set out on the mission. He finally arrived at
This caution benefited Páez when Susenyos I assumed the throne in 1607. Susenyos invited him to his court, where the two became friends. Susenyos made a grant of land to Páez on the peninsula of Gorgora on the north side of Lake Tana, where he built a new center for his fellow Jesuits, starting with a stone church, which was dedicated 16 January 1621.[6]
Eventually Páez also converted Susenyos to Catholicism shortly before his own death in 1622. Some of the Catholic churches he designed are still standing, most importantly in the area of
Writings
Páez's account of Ethiopia, História da Ethiópia, which he completed in 1620, was not published during his lifetime, although Manuel de Almeida borrowed extensively from it to compose his Historia de Etiopía a Alta ou Abassia decades later. After almost three centuries, Páez's history was printed as Volumes II and III of Camillo Beccari's Rerum Aethiopicarum Scriptores occidentales Inedtii (Rome, 1905–17). His work was published in 1945 at Porto in a new edition by Sanceau, Feio and Teixeira, Pêro Pais: História da Etiópia. In Spanish, his complete work was finally published in 2014 with the title Historia de Etiopía. História da Ethiópia has been translated to English by Christopher J. Tribe and published by The Hakluyt Society in 2011.
In addition to translating the
See also
Notes
- ^ E.A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 397.
- ISBN 978-84-120210-7-3.).
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ a b "The Jesuit Pedro Páez at the Spanish Embassy in Rome". Jesuits. February 13, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ Baltazar Téllez, The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1710 (LaVergue: Kessinger, 2010), p. 162
- ^ Paul B. Henze, Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia (New York: Palgrave, 2000), p. 95
- ^ James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1805 edition), vol. 3, p. 355
- ^ Pankhurst, The Ethiopians: A History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), p. 103
Further reading
- Vida y hazañas de Pedro Páez de Jaramillo
- Javier Reverte, Dios, el diablo y la aventura: La historia de Pedro Páez, el español que descubrió el Nilo Azul (God, the devil, and adventure: The story of Pedro Páez, the Spaniard who discovered the Blue Nile). Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 2001.
- George Bishop, A Lion to Judah: The Travels and Adventures of Pedro Paez, S.J., the River Finder. Anand: Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1998.
- Pedro Páez, Historia de Etiopía, (2 vol.). La Coruña: Ediciones del Viento, 2014.