Andrea Borromeo was a seventeenth-century Italian

Italy

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 Theatine priest.

A member of the noble Borromeo

House of Borromeo

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 family, he was one of the thirteen children of Giulio Cesare III Borromeo (1593–1638) and Giovanna Cesi (died 1672).^, 

In 1652 he went to Mingrelia in Georgia

Georgia (country)

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 as a missionary

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. He worked there for more than a decade and left an account of the region and the missions of his order entitled: Relazione della Georgia, Mingrelia, e Missione de’ Padri Teatini in quelle parti (Rome, 1704). On his return to Rome

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 he was elected procurator for these missions

Mission (Christian)

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while declining the offer of a bishopric.

After seven days of a malignant fever brought on by a urinary disorder, Andrea Borromeo died in Rome at 7 p.m. on Saturday 2 January 1683.