Pedro de Gante

Pedro de Ghent (* 1486 in Geraardsbergen, † April 19, 1572 in Mexico City) was a missionary of the Franciscans in Mexico. He is also known by the name of Pedro de Mura and Pieter van der Moere.

Life

Ghent was born in Flanders, like Spain was part of the Habsburg Empire. He was a relative of Charles V, which allowed him to 1523, with a group of Franciscan monks, the first Christian missionaries in the New World to travel to the colonies of New Spain.

In Mexico, he spent his life as a missionary, teaching the Indians catechism and Christian dogma with which he developed sign language ( pictorial catechism ). Ghent was thus an efficient way to propagate Catholicism across cultural borders.

Next, he started his Indian students a great campaign to convert the native population. Gantenbein learned Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs and wrote the Doctrina Christiana. Gantenbein founded many churches, schools and hospitals in Mexico City, where one of his greatest achievements has been the establishment of the School of San Jose de los Naturales. She was the first European-founded educational institution in America.

In 1988 he became Pope John Paul II canonized and is in the list of the greatest Belgian ( De Grootste Belg ) at No. 99

Works

  • Catecismo de la doctrina cristiana con jeroglíficos, para la enseñanza de los indios de México: Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Códice 1257B.
  • Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Mexicana. Per signum crucis. Icamachiotl cruz yhuicpain toya chua Xitech momaquixtili Totecuiyoc Diose. Ica inmotocatzin. Tetatzin yhuan Tepilizin yhuan Spiritus Sancti. Amen Jesús (first published about 1547, Mexico: Juan Pablos, 1553, Antwerp, 1553, Mexico:. Juan Pablos, 1555 reprint with comments from Ernesto de la Torre Villar (Mexico, 1981).
  • Catecismo de la doctrina cristiana con jeroglíficos, para la enseñanza de los indios de México, reprint with comments from Federico Navarro (Madrid, 1970) / Justino Cortés Castellanos, El catecismo pictogramas en de Fr Pedro de Ghent (Madrid, 1987).
  • Cartas, versos en & Religious mejicano, ed s. Joaquín García Icazbalceta, Códice Franciscano (Mexico, 1941), 212 f
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