Article Nº 3803 Clergy and religious Vol. III · p. 738
Visitação (Friar António da)
Original title: Visitação (Fr. António da)
Madeiran Carmelite friar (1546–1606), a noted Latinist and preacher who held important offices in his order and left unpublished poems and orations.
He was born in Madeira in 1546 and died on 13 October 1606. In 1568 he took the habit of the Carmelites, and he held very important offices in his order. He had a profound knowledge of Latin and was a celebrated preacher in his day. Diogo Barbosa Machado says that he left several Poemas and Orações (poems and orations), which remained unpublished.
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