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 History of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While they failed in their efforts to convert the Ethiopians to Roman Catholicism (though Emperor Susenyos did so briefly) they acquired an extensive knowledge of the country.
Pedro Paez in 1605 and, 20 years later, Jerónimo Lobo, both visited the sources of the Blue Nile.
In the 1660s the Portuguese were expelled from the Ethiopian dominions and Emperor Fasilides ordered all of the books of the "Franks" burnt in 1665.
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 Jesuits in Ethiopia
By the end of the century, when Philip II, the Emperor of Spain, inherited the Portuguese royal crown, he decided to revive the Jesuit mission in Ethiopia.
A new priest, Father Pedro Páez, was sent from Goa.
BISHOP, GEORGE, A Lion to Judah: The Travels and Adventures of Pedro Paez, S.J., the River Finder, Anand, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1998.
pwp.netcabo.pt /patrimonio.sgl/sitebuild/index.htm   (1967 words)

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