Pedro Angulo, O.P. (died 1561) was a Spanish Dominican missionary in

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, in the sixteenth century.

Biography

He was a native of

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and came to America in 1524 as a soldier. He later joined the Dominican order in 1529. He became a companion of

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in Guatemala, Central America in general, and the Greater Antilles (

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). He was made Provincial of the Dominicans for

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and Bishop of Vera Paz, but died soon afterwards."Father Pedro de Angulo, O.P."
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 11, 2016 Angulo was one of the principal figures of the earliest Indian Missions in Southern Mexico and Guatemala, and more successful than Las Casas. He visited tribe after tribe, and lived and taught among them. He resorted to charts on which biblical subjects were allegorically represented. These he carried with him through the wilderness to use as illustrations for his discourses to the natives. He was proficient in

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and Zutuhil, and wrote several tracts on religious subjects in the latter.

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* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) ;Attribution * The entry cites: **Documents concerning Las Cases, in the Documentos inéditos de Indias; **the writings of Las Casas himself; **REMESAL, Historia de la provincia de Guatemala y San Vicente de Chyapas (Madrid, 1619); **BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, Bibliothèque méxico-guatémalienne (Paris. 1871); **

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, ''Monograph of Authors who have Written on the Languages of Central America'' (New York, 1861) {{DEFAULTSORT:Angulo, Pedro 1561 deaths Spanish Dominicans Spanish Roman Catholic missionaries 16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Guatemala Year of birth unknown Roman Catholic missionaries in Guatemala Dominican missionaries Roman Catholic bishops of Verapaz