# Pedro de Gante

> Pieter van der Moere, also known as Brother Pedro de Gante or Pedro de Mura was a Franciscan missionary in sixteenth century Mexico. Born in Geraardsbergen in present-day Belgium, he was of Flemish descent. Since Flanders, like Spain, belonged to the Habsburg Empire and he was a relative of King Charles V, he was allowed to travel to the colonies of New Spain as one of a group of Franciscan friars. Gante's group in fact arrived before the 12 Franciscans normally thought of as the first friars in New Spain. In Mexico he spent his life as a missionary, teaching the indigenous population in Christian catechism and dogma. He learned Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and composed a Christian "doctrina". One of his most significant contributions to Mexico was the creation of the School of San Jose de los Naturales. This was the first school set up by Europeans in the Americas.

*Flemish Catholic missionary and educator*

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## Identity
- **Born:** 1480
- **Died:** 1572-04-19
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Sources
- [Pedro de Gante](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Gante)
- [بيتر من جينت](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA)
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- [Pedro de Gante](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Gante)
- [Pedro de Gante](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Gante)
- [Pedro de Gante](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Gante)
- [Pierre de Gand](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Gand)
- [Pieter van Gent](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_Gent)
- [Peter van Gent](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Gent)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450411)

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