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The Catholic Encyclopedia

Diego Francisco Altamirano

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

Altamirano, Diego Francisco, Jesuit, b. at Madrid, 26 October, 1625; d. Lima, 22 December, 1715. He wrote “Historia de la provincia Peruana de la Compañía de Jésus”, the twelfth book only of which was published, in 1891, by Manuel Vicente Ballivian, with a short biographical notice from the pen of Torres Saldamando. It was followed by another by Altamirano: ‘Breve noticia de las misiones de los infieles que tiene la Compañía de Jésus en esta provincia del Peru, en las provincias de los Mojos”, also with introduction by Saldamando. The original MS. of the “ Historia” is in the National Archives at Lima, in a deplorable state of decomposition.

Ballivian, Documentos historicos de Bolivia (La Paz, 1891),

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Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907. Public domain.

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