missioner
Noun
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Someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country (synset 110342840)
is a type of: religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deityspecific instances:
- buck, pearl buck, pearl sydenstricker buck - United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
- jacques marquette, marquette, pere jacques marquette - French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)
- apostle of the gentiles, apostle paul, paul, paul the apostle, saint paul, saul, saul of tarsus, st. paul - (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle
- albert schweitzer, schweitzer - French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965)
- junipero serra, miguel jose serra, serra - Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784)
- agnes gonxha bojaxhiu, mother teresa, mother theresa, teresa, theresa - Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)
same as: missionary
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