Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Nasimben, Pedro

NASIMBEN, Pedro (nah-seem-ben'), Italian missionary, b. in Venice, 8 April, 1703; d. in Santa Rosa, Cal., in 1755. He entered the Society of Jesus in Italy in 1719, and in 1733 was sent by his superiors to New Spain. In 1735 he was assigned to the missions in California, where he died after twenty years of successful labor in converting the Indians. He wrote “Noticias del establecimiento y estado de la Mision de Santa Rosa, y de sus pueblos de la Trinidad y San Marcos en California” (Mexico, 1750).