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Padre António Vieira Exhibition at the Braga Public Library

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7/13/2017 - 9/29/2017
Biblioteca Pública de Braga

Bibliographic exhibiton about Padre António Vieira, from July 13th to September 29th, at the Braga Public Library atrium, one of the University of Minho’s cultural units in the town centre. Free admittance from Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

This event is organised by the Braga Public Library on its 175th anniversary under the “Efemérides” exhibition round, for the 320 years of the passing of the illustruous personality known among the Brazilian Maranhão natives as the “Great Priest”.

António Vieira was born in 1608 in Lisbon and died in 1697 at the Colégio da Bahia, in Brazil. From a modest family, he joined the Society of Jesus in 1632. Two years later, he took his poverty vows and offered to become a missionary among the Amerindians and black slaves. Soon after he was ordained a priest, he became famous for his preaching, his prestige stretching three centuries until today.

The “Dicionário Cronológico de Autores Portugueses” (vol. VI, 1989) descibes the priest as “the most important Portuguese sacred speaker, a man of action, missionary and visionary, uniting his utopic longings with a strong sense of political realism”. During the difficult period of the Portuguese Restoration, he tried to consolidate the nation’s independence and to ensure the continuity of the Portuguese Empire, while at the same time committing himself to the defense of Brazilian natives and human rights.

+Info: www.bpb.uminho.pt

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Padre António Vieira Exhibition at the Braga Public Library

7/13/2017 - 9/29/2017 Biblioteca Pública de Braga

Event detail

7/13/2017 - 9/29/2017
Biblioteca Pública de Braga