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Vicente Nery da Silva

d. 1860

priest · writer · journalist · political prisoner

Main article Nery da Silva (Canon Vicente) Biography of Canon Vicente Nery da Silva (d. 1860), a canon of Funchal Cathedral famed for his fiery and often aggressive preaching, author of political-ecclesiastical pamphlets and a liberal persecuted in 1828.

Canon Vicente Nery da Silva (d. 1860) was a Madeiran canon of Funchal Cathedral, famed for his fiery and often aggressive preaching. He wrote political-ecclesiastical pamphlets and, as a liberal, was persecuted in 1828. The Travessa do Nery in Funchal, where he lived, takes its name from him.