António de Andrade

Antonio Freire de Andrade (* 1580 in Oleiros, † March 19, 1634 in Velha Goa) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer. He crossed in 1625 as the first European to see the Himalayas.

Life

1596 Andrade joined at the Society of Jesus and was sent four years later to India. There he worked as a missionary on the island of Salsette, and later as rector of the colleges of Rachol and St. Paulo in Goa until he was entrusted with the direction of the mission stations in the Mughal Empire. His journey to Tibet, he began in 1624 in Agra, India, where he disguised himself as a Hindu with Manuel Marques went on the trip. He visited the town of Badrinath. On this journey, crossed the two Jesuits were the first Europeans the Himalayas ( Manapass, 1625). In 1625 he founded in Tsaparang, Tibet, a mission. Later he worked as a missionary in Tibet and Kashmir.

Swell

• Picture Atlas of discoveries Bechtermünz Publisher
• New Large encyclopedia in color, 1990
• Apparitions and messages of the Virgin Mary, Bechtermünz Publisher
• Toscano, Giuseppe M.: La Prima Missione Cattolica nel Tibet. Instituto Missione Estere, Parma, Hong Kong, 1951