(better known by the name of Antonio das Chagas), a celebrated Portuguese theologian, was born at Vidigueira, June 25, 1631. He studied at the University of Evora, and after the death of his father engaged as a simple soldier, but having killed a man in a duel, fled to Brazil. At Bahia he was reformed from a life of licentiousness by reading a treatise of F. Luiz da Granada, and from that time resolved to become a Franciscan. He returned to Europe, and, after some relapses of faith, joined the order of St. Francis of Evora, May 18, 1662. Afterwards he studied theology at Coimbra, established a seminary at Torres-Vedras in 1678, and there died, with the reputation of sanctity, October 20, 1682, leaving the following works, posthumously published: Faiscas de Amor Dicino (Lisbon, 1683): Obras Espirituaes (ibid. 1684, 1687, in 2 parts): O Padre nosso Commentado (1688): Espelho do Espirito em que deve verse e Comporse a Alma (1683): Escola da Penitencia (1687) Sermoes Genuinos (1690), besides a number of ascetical writings still in MS. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.<\/p>\n
Fonseca (Soares), Antonio da (better known by the name of Antonio das Chagas), a celebrated Portuguese theologian, was born at Vidigueira, June 25, 1631. He studied at the University of Evora, and after the death of his father engaged as a simple soldier, but having killed a man in a duel, fled to Brazil. At … Continue reading “Fonseca (Soares), Antonio da”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}