Tommaso Raggio

Tommaso Raggio
Born 1531
Forlì, Papal States (modern-day Italy)
Died 1599
Other names Radius, Raggius[1]
Occupation Jesuit missionary, Papal diplomat

Tommaso Raggio (Latin: Thomas Razzius) (1531—1599) was a 16th century Jesuit missionary.

Raggio joined Jesuit order in 1557 in Loreto.[2]

Raggio was Catholic missionary in Kotor in 1574—75.[3] Raggio was a poliglot who knew six foreign languages, including Croatian.[4] According to Miroslav Vanino, Raggio learned Croatian language in Kotor so he later worked for the benefit of Croats and other Balkan people.[5] Raggio emphasized that Jesuit presence in Kotor is very important because Kotor was very near Serbia while Kotor Bay goes deep into the territory populated with Orthodox people.[6]

In 1577 Raggio was one of two Jesuit envoys sent by Pope to Maronite patriarch.[7] In 1582 Raggio became a rector of Illyrian College in Loreto.[8] Between 1584 and 1587 Raggio accompanied Tommaso Pelessa at his missionary journeys into Ottoman held territories.[9]

At the beginning of 1594 Raggio and Aleksandar Komulović, as apostolic visitors,[10] began their diplomatic mission aimed to forge an anti-Ottoman coalition in support of the West during the Long Turkish War, principally in the Balkans and among the Slavs.[11] Raggio left this mission after one year and returned to Italy in 1595.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Orientalia Christiana Analecta. Pont. institutum studiorum orientalium. 1965. p. 82. On Tommaso Raggio (Radius, Raggius) ...
  2. ↑ (Pagano 2008, p. 324): "Tommaso Raggio (1531-1599), nativo di Forlì, entrato fra i Gesuiti a Loreto nel 1557, fu ordinato sacerdote nel 1582,"
  3. ↑ Hrvatski isusovački misionari i pokušaji unije s pravoslavnima od 16. do. 19. stoljeća, Mijo Korade, Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2015, p. 41
  4. ↑ Kolo Matice hrvatske. Matica hrvatska. 2007. p. 353. U tome mu je mogao biti uzor i talijanski isusovac poliglot Toma Raggio (latinski Thomas Razzius, 1531-1599). On je znao šest stranih jezika, među njima i hrvatski, pa je od 1574. tri puta bio u Kotoru i jednom u Zadru.
  5. ↑ (Vanino 1986, p. 139): "...u Kotoru naučio je hrvatski pa zato kasnije na više načina djeluje za Hrvate i druge narode s Balkanskog poluotoka."
  6. ↑ Hrvatski isusovački misionari i pokušaji unije s pravoslavnima od 16. do. 19. stoljeća, Mijo Korade, Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2015, p. 41
  7. ↑ (Frazee 2006, p. 137)
  8. ↑ (Pagano 2008, p. 324): "Tommaso Raggio (1531-1599),...fu ordinato sacerdote nel 1582, e fu quindi rettore del Collegio degli Illirici nella medesima citta; viaggio in compagnia di Tommaso Pelessa fra il 1584 e il 1587."
  9. ↑ (Pagano 2008, p. 324): "Tommaso Raggio (1531-1599),.... viaggio in compagnia di Tommaso Pelessa fra il 1584 e il 1587."
  10. ↑ Antrobus, Frederick Ignatius (1930). The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages. K. Paul, Trench, Tru bner & Company. p. 485. At the beginning of 1584 Gregory XIII. sent Alessandro Komulowic, a canon of Zara, and the Jesuit Tommaso Raggio,
  11. ↑ Stanojević, Gligor (1973). Senjski uskoci. Vojnoizdavački zavod. p. 147. Krajem januara 1593. hvarski biskup Petar Čedolini uputio je papi pismenu poruku kojom ga poziva u borbu protiv Turaka i uvjerava da je Turska slaba i da ne može odoljeti jednom hrišćanskom savezu.12' Iste godine sličan predlog je uputio papi i sveštenik Aleksandar Komulović
  12. ↑ Zlatar, Zdenko (1 January 1992). Our Kingdom Come: The Counter-Reformation, the Republic of Dubrovnik, and the Liberation of the Balkan Slavs. East European Monographs. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-88033-239-2. While Raggio returned after a year, Komulovic stayed in the Balkans for three years....

Sources

  • Vanino, Miroslav (1986). Vrela i prinosi. Nova tiskara.
  • Frazee, Charles A. (2006) [1983]. Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pagano, Sergio (2008). La nunziatura di Ludovico Taverna: (25 febbraio 1592 - 4 aprile 1596). Istituto Storico Italiano per l'Età Moderna e Contemporanea.
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