Agathange de Vendôme
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Agathange de Vendôme
Agathange de Vendôme (1598-1638) was a French Capuchin. Born at Vendôme, France, joined the Capucin Order and was ordained a priest in 1625. In 1633 he succeeded Gilles de Loches as head of the Capucin missions in Egypt. In 1634, he confirmed to French intellectual and collector Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc that a copy of the "lost" book of Enoch was available in Egypt in the Ethiopic language. In 1636 the manuscript (in reality, a theological commentary merely containing citations of and allusions to the book of Enoch) was in Peiresc's hands in France. Father Agathange died a martyr in 1638 in Dibarua, near Suakin, Sudan, where he had tried to establish a Capuchin mission.