Angeli, Girolamo DEGLI, an eminent pioneer missionary of Japan; b. at Castro-Giovanni, Sicily, 1567; d. 4 December, 1623. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1585, and in 1602 began his apostolate in Japan, remaining there after the publication of the edict expelling all missionaries from the country. An indefatigable worker, he was the first missionary to penetrate the hitherto unknown realms of Yezo, Jasu, and Cai. Angeli, after making many converts to Christianity, seeing that his neophytes were cruelly Pee cued because of his presence among them and his preaching, gave himself up to the authorities. Condemned to death he underwent martyrdom by fire, in the public square of Yezo.
Histoire de ce qui s’est passé au Japon... traduit par le P. Morin, S.J. (Paris, 1625); Relazwne del. regno di Yezo (Rome and Messina, 1625); Sommervogel, Biblioth., VIII, 388; CHARLEVOIX, Histoire du Japon (Paris, 1754), IV and V; NiecremBerc, Varones Ilustres, 2d ed., I, 413.
Joseph M. Woods.