Belchior Carneiro Leitão, SJ, often known as Melchior Carneiro was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary bishop. He was one of the first Jesuit bishops.
Bust of Belchior Carneiro in Macau
Macau was a Portuguese colony from the establishment of the first official Portuguese settlement of Macau in 1557 to its handover to China in 1999. It comprised the Municipality of Macau and the Municipality of Ilhas. Macau was both the first and last European holding in China.
16th century Portuguese watercolour of the Chinese, contained within the Códice Casanatense.
Church of St. Dominic, among Macau's oldest, and where the first modern newspaper in China. A Abelha da China was published.
Portuguese carrack depicted in a Japanese lacquer screen.
Amacao, by Theodor de Bry, c. 1598