Giuseppe Maria Bernini

Giuseppe Maria Bernini da Garghano OFMCap
Vice-prefect of the Tibet-Hindustan Mission
Drawing of Giuseppe Maria Bernini De Gargnano from the 1767 book Memorie Historiche by Cassiano de Macerata
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Personal details
Born	Bernardino Bernini 2 September 1709[1]
Died	15 January 1761
Nationality	Italian
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Residence	India

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Giuseppe Maria Bernini, also known as Giuseppe Maria da Gargnano (English: Joseph Mary Bernini, Hindustani: ज्यूसेपे मारिया बेर्निनी (Devanagari), جیوسپی ماریا بیرنینی (Nastaleeq)), who lived from 1709–1761, was an Italian Capuchin missionary, physician and Orientalist.^[2] His efforts led to the establishment of the northern Indian subcontinent's oldest Christian community—the Bettiah Christians.^[3] Bernini was the first European to author tracts in Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), as well as to translate Indian classics from Sanskrit into Italian.^[2]