Article Nº 2840 Clergy and religious Vol. III · p. 117
Pereira da Silva (Father José)
Original title: Pereira da Silva (Padre José)
Lazarist priest from Porto who taught and was vice-rector at the Funchal Seminary, leaving in 1910 and dying in Paris in 1922.
He was born in Porto on 19 March 1874, entered the Congregation of the Lazarists in 1890 and was ordained priest in 1898. That same year he came to Madeira, where he was a teacher and finally vice-rector of the Seminary. He left for Hamburg and from there for Paris on 21 October 1910, and died in the latter city on 14 June 1922. Works: Á memoria de Leão XIII, a funeral oration delivered in the Cathedral (Sé Catedral) on 12 November 1903; Funchal, 34 pp.
People mentioned
- José Pereira da Silva 1874–1922
- Leo XIII
Places mentioned
Chronology
- Father José Pereira da Silva was born in Porto.
- Padre José Pereira da Silva was ordained and came to Madeira.
- Father José Pereira da Silva preached a funeral oration for Leo XIII in Funchal Cathedral.
- Padre José Pereira da Silva left Madeira for Hamburg and Paris after the republican revolution.
- Padre José Pereira da Silva died in Paris.