André de Longjumeau ( also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English ) was a 13th century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century.

Jose de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who lived in Peru and then Mexico in the later 16th century, wrote of it:

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

The Portuguese missionary Pedro de Alcacova would later write in 1554:

Most of what is known about Pre-Contact (" Ancient ") Chamorros comes from legends and myths, archaeological evidence, Jesuit missionary accounts, and observations from visiting scientists like Otto von Kotzebue and Louis de Freycinet.

* Pedro de Gante, Franciscan missionary in Mexico ( c. 1480 – 1572 )

He was sent as a missionary to China in 1610 and while waiting at Macau for a favorable opportunity to enter the country he published his " Résultat de l ' observation sue l ' éclipse de lune du 8 Novembre, 1612, faite a Macao " ( Mémoires de l ' Acad.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

* 1593 – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1649 )

* 1649 – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1593 )

The final pongo on the Marañón, the Pongo de Manseriche, is long, just below the mouth of the Rio Santiago, and between it and the old abandoned missionary station of Borja.

* 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1591 )

The Pongo de Manseriche is 3 miles ( 4. 8 km ) long, located at 4 ° 27 ' 30 " south latitude and 77 ° 34 ' 51 " west longitude, just below the mouth of the Rio Santiago, and between it and the old missionary station of Borja.

** Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, Spanish missionary and explorer ( d. 1676 )

* June 9 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary ( b. 1534 )

* Jean de Brébeuf of France ( 1593 – 1649 ), Jesuit missionary

* February 18 – José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist ( b. 1540 )

* March 25 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1649 )

** Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima ( b. 1538 )

* February 15 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal ( d. 1676 )

* March 19 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Brazil ( d. 1597 )

* March 16 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1593 )

* March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1660 )

No texts survive from this area, though the written text Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") by Rimbert ( c. 865 ) describes the missionary work of Ansgar around 830 at Birka, and Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the archbishop Unni, who died at Birka in 936.

Jesuit missionary Jacques Gravier's pioneering Kaskaskia-French dictionary explicitly describes and names the passenger pigeon as mimi8a in the Kaskaskia Illinois language, said to be equivalent to tourtre in French.

* 1679-Writing from Changzhou, newly arrived missionary Juan de Yrigoyen describes three Christian congregations flourishing in that Chinese city

* 1772-After visiting Scilly Cove in Newfoundland, Canada, missionary James Balfour describes it as a " most Barbarous Lawless Place "

The Völkner Incident describes the murder of the missionary Carl Sylvius Völkner in New Zealand in 1865 and the consequent reaction of the Government of New Zealand in the midst of the New Zealand land wars.

" An overtly Christian missionary source ( i. e., with observations reflecting attempts to convert the Bulang ) describes them as " ardent followers of Theravada Buddhism ", and offers as an estimate that 80 % of the Bulang are " professing Buddhists ", with a lower estimate of 35 % being " practicing Buddhists ".

En route, Nash provides Race with photocopied pages of what turns out to be a copy of the Santiago Manuscript, which describes the adventures of Alberto Santiago a Spanish missionary in Peru whilst also holding the key to the final resting place of a legendary Incan idol, allegedly made of thyrium-261, an element that, when combined with the mass destruction weapon the Supernova, would destroy a third of the Earth's mass throwing it off from the orbit and effectively killing the planet.

Additionally, in the Chinese record History of the Liang Dynasty ( Liang Shu ), the Buddhist missionary Hui-Sheng describes an island of dog-headed men to the east of Fusang, a nation he visited variously identified as Japan or the Americas.

Church planting also describes the missionary model of Baptist missionaries, for instance, in mid-twentieth century Brazil.

Finally, the fifth part calls for the formation by the Baptist denomination of a missionary society and describes the practical means by which it could be supported.

Though severely wounded in both legs, missionary pilot Kevin Donaldson landed the burning plane on the Amazon River.

* Justus Henry Nelson, Methodist missionary in the Amazon, grew up in South Wayne.

* Justus Henry Nelson, Methodist missionary in the Amazon ( attended )

The boat involved in the rescue ( known as Maid II ) was retired from service in 1983 and relocated to the Amazon River, where it served as a missionary ship for years after.

Jessica was also the niece of Justus Henry Nelson, an early missionary in the Amazon.

At this time the Piast duke Konrad I of Masovia with the consent of Pope Innocent III had started the first of several unsuccessful Prussian Crusades into the adjacent Chełmno Land and Christian acted as a missionary among the Prussians east of the Vistula River.

The earliest reference that might be relevant to Mokèlé-mbèmbé stories ( though the term is not used in the source ) comes from the 1776 book of Abbé Lievain Bonaventure, a French missionary to the Congo River region.

In 1840, while continuing his medical studies in London, Livingstone met LMS missionary Robert Moffat, on leave from Kuruman, a missionary outpost in South Africa, north of the Orange River.

The famous British explorer and missionary David Livingstone failed in his attempt to verify Speke's discovery, instead pushing too far west and entering the River Congo system instead.

In that year, a British missionary visited the Shawnee villages on the Scioto River and recorded the location of Blue Jacket's Town on Deer Creek ( present Ross County, Ohio ).

In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to a site on the St. Joseph River near the present-day city of Niles to open a mission to the Potawatomi Indians.

The Captain defies these orders and elects to evacuate idealistic missionary Jameson ( Larry Gates ) and his school teacher assistant Shirley Eckert ( Candice Bergen ) from their remote mission up the Yangtze River.

The city, which is located on the Mississippi River, is named after Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette, who along with Louis Joliet discovered the Mississippi River just southeast of the city on June 17, 1673.

Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest and missionary, were the first Europeans to explore and map much of the Mississippi River in 1673.

* 1643-John Campanius, Lutheran missionary to the Indians, arrives in America on the Delaware River ; Reformed pastor Johannes Megapolensis begins outreach to Native Americans while pastoring at Albany, New York

* 1704-French missionary priests arrive to evangelize the Chitimacha living along the Mississippi River in what is now the state of Louisiana

* 1756-Civil unrest forces Gideon Halley away from his missionary work among the Six Nations on the Susquehanna River where he has been working for four years under the supervision of Jonathan Edwards with an appointment from the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians.

St. Thomas Episcopal Church was founded in 1910 by Reverend John Roberts, an Episcopal missionary who served the Native American tribes on the Wind River.

* Vicariate Apostolic of Orange River for the Catholic missionary history

Along the coast of Spanish Florida the Altamaha River marked the boundary between the Guale and Mocama missionary provinces.

* The Martyrs ' Shrine church in Midland, Ontario, the site of their missionary work among the Huron, and the National Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, New York, along the Mohawk River, are dedicated to them.

Graduated from Harvard College, Hinsdale was ordained to become a missionary for Indians of the Connecticut River Valley.

In the Russian River Valley, a missionary baptized the Makahmo Pomo people of the Cloverdale area.

* The most common translation of " Ishikawa ", proposed by the missionary and researcher of the Ainu language John Batchelor ( 1854 – 1944 ) in 1935, is " a greatly wandering river ", a reference to the meandering path of the Ishikari River.

* William Mitchell ( missionary ) ( 1803 – 1870 ), Anglican priest who established religious services in the Swan River Colony

One of the first documented visits by European-Americans to the upper Sandy River basin occurred in 1838, when Daniel Lee, the nephew of missionary Jason Lee, used the Indian trail over Lolo Pass to drive cattle from a Methodist mission in the Willamette Valley to a mission in Wascopam.