Philipp Segesser
Swiss missionary (1689-1762)
Philipp Segesser (1 September 1689 – 28 September 1762) was a German-speaking Swiss Jesuit missionary who spent much of his career in Sonora, Mexico.
Early years
Philipp Anton Segesser von Brunegg was born on 1 September 1689 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
He attended the Jesuit College in Lucerne. On 15 October 1708 he ended his academic education, and probably moved to the Jesuit school in Landsberg am Lech for his novitiate. He took his four vows as a Jesuit missionary in 1710. He worked as a teacher in the Jesuit province of Upper Germany. In 1717 he moved to the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt for continued theological studies and was officially accepted into the Society of Jesus.
Jesuit teacher
Segesser completed his studies in 1721, and celebrated his first mass as a priest on 8 June 1721.
He became a teacher at Altötting on 16 September 1721, and in 1722 was transferred to a teaching post in Straubing.
In 1726 he took his final vows in Neuburg an der Donau, making a lifetime commitment to the Jesuits.
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