Article Nº 3805 Clergy and religious Vol. III · p. 738
Vitória (Friar João Pinto da)
Original title: Vitória (Fr. João Pinto da)
Madeiran Carmelite friar (d. Valencia 1631) who rose to provincial of Aragon and wrote works in Spanish.
He was born on this island in the third quarter of the 16th century and died in Valencia, a city in Spain, in 1631. He entered the Carmelite order and went to Spain to complete his studies, remaining there until his death. He held the highest offices in his order, such as those ‘of provincial of Aragon and visitor (visitador, ecclesiastical inspector) of the province of Andalusia’. He was a writer esteemed in his day, and Diogo Barbosa Machado mentions the works Vida del Fr. Juan Sanz, Valência, 1612, and Gerarchia Carmelitana, Valência, 1616, both written in Spanish.
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