Andrea Borromeo
Andrea Borromeo (c. 1615[1] – 2 January 1683) was an Italian Theatine priest and missionary.
A member of the noble House of Borromeo, he was one of the thirteen children of Giulio Cesare III Borromeo (1593–1638) and Giovanna Cesi (died 1672).[2][3]
In 1652 he went to Mingrelia in Georgia as a missionary. He worked there for more than a decade and left an account of the region and the missions of his order entitled: "Relazione della Georgia, Mingrelia, e Missione de’ Padri Teatini in quelle parti" which was published in Rome in 1704.
On his return to Rome he was elected procurator for the missions he had established while declining the offer of a bishopric.[4]
After seven days of a malignant fever brought on by a urinary disorder, Andrea Borromeo died in Rome at 7 pm on Saturday 2 January 1683.[2]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Andrea Borromeo — An Italian missionary, born on the first half of the seventeenth century, at or near Milan; died in 1683. He was the son of Count Giulio Cesare Borromeo, and was received into the religious order of Theatines in 1637. In 1652 he visited Mingrelea and Georgia (Russian Transcaucasia) as a missionary and laboured with success for eleven years, to convert the inhabitants. On his return to Rome he was elected procurator for these missions. He decline the offer of a bishopric. He left an account of the above mentioned missions of his order entitled: "relazione della Georgia, Mingrelai, e Missione de Padri Teatini in quelle parti" (Rome, 1704).
MAZZUCHELLI, Scrittori d'Italia (Brescia, 1762), II, iii, 1793.
References
- Back to citation His parents seem to have married in or around 1615 according to Pietro Canetta, ‘Borromeo Giulio Cesare III’ Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine in Albero Genealogico Storico Biografico della nobile Famiglia Borromeo, ed. by Gioacchino Civelli (Verbania Intra: Magazzeno Storico Verbanese, [n.d.]).
- Back to citation occurrence 2.0 Back to citation occurrence 2.1 Pietro Canetta, ‘Borromeo Andrea’ Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine in Albero Genealogico Storico Biografico della nobile Famiglia Borromeo, ed. by Gioacchino Civelli (Verbania Intra: Magazzeno Storico Verbanese, [n.d.]).
- Back to citation Pietro Canetta, ‘Borromeo Giulio Cesare III’
- Back to citation Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Andrea Borromeo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.