Jacinto Barrasa (or Barraza) (born at

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, Peru, early in the seventeenth century; died there, 22 November 1704) was a Peruvian

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preacher and historian. In the seventeenth century, the different

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s appointed historiographers or official chroniclers of the work done in their American provinces. The Jesuits selected Ignacio de Arbieto for their Peruvian missions, but as his account was not accepted, Jacinto Barrasa was appointed in his stead.

Works

His fame was principally as a preacher, and two volumes of his "Sermones" were published, one at

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in 1678, the other at Lima in 1679. In the latter year he finished his voluminous history of the Society of Jesus in Peru, which is still at Lima in private hands, and comprises 1,350 pages of manuscript. Its title is: . No allusions are made in that chronicle to any other events than those of a religious or ecclesiastical nature. In addition to his "Sermones", a "Panegirico", pronounced by him in 1669 on the beatification of

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, was also printed.

References

Attribution

* The entry cites: **, (Lima, 1882); **

Bernabé Cobo Bernabé Cobo (born at Lopera in Spain, 1582; died at Lima, Peru, 9 October 1657) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and writer. He played a part in the early history of quinine by his description of cinchona bark; he brought some to Europe on a vi ...

, (published at Lima, 1882, but written in 1639). {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrasa, Jacinto 1704 deaths 18th-century Peruvian Jesuits Year of birth unknown 18th-century Peruvian historians Peruvian male writers People from Lima