Ange de Saint Joseph [SEP] religious order
Ange de Saint Joseph
Ange de Saint Joseph (secular name Joseph de la Brosse) (b. at Toulouse, 1636; d. at Perpignan, 1697) was a French missionary friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He was a linguist, and wrote works on Oriental pharmacology. 
Life.
In 1662 he took up the study of Arabic in the convent of San Pancrazio in Rome, under Celestino à San-Liduvina, brother of the Orientalist Golius. In 1664 he was sent to the East as missionary,
, where he spent many years. He was Provincial in his order at the time of his death. 
Works.
His writings are: 
- "Pharmacopoeia Persica, ex idiomate persico in latinum conversa" (Paris, 1681).
Hyde ("Biographia Britannica", cited by Langlès, "Biographie universelle") asserts that the credit for this work really belongs to Père Matthieu. 
Another work by Ange de Saint Joseph, which is praised by Bernier, Pétis de la Croix, and Chardin is