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Vincentius Sangermano
Vincenzo Sangermano, C.R.S.P. (1758, Arpino - 1819, Livorno), was an Italian Barnabite priest and missionary who traveled to South-East Asia in the late 1700s and worked in Burma from 1783 to 1808. After his return to Italy, he was placed in charge of the house of his Order, in Arpino. He planned to return to Burma, but died before he could set sail. He is the author of ''A Description of the Burmese Empire'', translated into English and posthumously published in 1833, which proved a valuable source of information for the later study of Burma and its people.
==Biography==
Sangermano was sent out in 1782 to aid in the mission in what is now Burma;〔 the order had been assigned Ava and Pegu in Burma, a mission they maintained until 1832. Arriving in Rangoon in July 1783, he went on to reside in Ava.〔 He soon returned to Rangoon where he worked spend the rest of his career in Burma,〔〕 and where he also ministered to the descendants of Portuguese colonists, who had been deported to a remote region after the Portuguese rulers in Thanlyin had been defeated in the early seventeenth century; apparently Sangermano found two thousand of them still maintaining their religion. By all accounts he was successful in his mission, and counted the wife of the Viceroy of Pegu among those who attended his church (though she never converted).〔 He also documented what he saw among the peoples he visited, including for instance the Karen, and his notes are some of the earliest Western witnesses to the Burmese people.〔 He learned the Burmese language, studied the literature, and was held "in high estimation by the natives for his exemplary life and inoffensive manners."〔 Sangermano was a skilled draughtsman, and received a lifelong pension from the British East India Company for having drawn a very accurate map of the port of Rangoon.〔
Sangermano returned to Italy in 1808, and while he had wished to return to his mission, the Napoleonic invasion and the ensuing war prevented him from doing so. He became president of the Barnabite order in Arpino, all the while preparing a manuscript outlining his experiences in Burma, but his death in 1819 preventing him from seeing the publication of the book. Apparently, he died in Livorno, preparing to sail for Burma again.
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