Pedro Angulo, O.P. (died 1561) was a Spanish Dominican missionary in Guatemala, in the sixteenth century.
Biography He was a native of Burgos, Spain and came to America in 1524 as a soldier. He later joined the Dominican order in 1529. He became a companion of Bartolomé de las Casas in Guatemala, Central America in general, and the Greater Antilles (Santo Domingo). He was made Provincial of the Dominicans for Chiapas and Bishop of Vera Paz, but died soon afterwards."Father Pedro de Angulo, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 11, 2016 Angulo was one of the principal figures of the earliest Indian Missions in Southern Mexico and Guatemala, and more successful than Las Casas. He visited tribe after tribe, and lived and taught among them. He resorted to charts on which biblical subjects were allegorically represented. These he carried with him through the wilderness to use as illustrations for his discourses to the natives.
He was proficient in Nahuatl and Zutuhil, and wrote several tracts on religious subjects in the latter.
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Attribution The entry cites: documents concerning Las Casas, in the the writings of Las Casas himself , (Madrid, 1619) Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, (Paris. 1871) Ephraim George Squier, Monograph of Authors who have Written on the Languages of Central America (New York, 1861)