Luís de Almeida
1525–1583
Merchant-surgeon who bankrolled the mission and built its hospital
Also written: Luís de Almeida · ルイス・デ・アルメイダ
Portuguese trader who joined the Society in 1556 and signed over his fortune — the capital that anchored the mission's finances to the silk trade. At Funai he founded Japan's first European hospital, treating lepers and abandoned infants; for a quarter-century he was the mission's tireless itinerant, ordained at last in Macau in 1580. He died at Amakusa in 1583.
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