Santa Maria, Agostinho de
First edition, a lengthy account of the first Convent for Women of Goa, of which a significant portion are biographies of the Nuns living at the Convent of Santa Monica in Goa, along with a history of the foundation and running of the Convent, largely from the lives of the Nuns.
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“En 1606 Alejo de Meneses, arzobispo de Goa, llevó a efecto la fundación del primer monasterio femenino que hubo en el Oriente Portugués, cuya estructura se conserva todavía en su esplendor y es en nuestros días un centro de estudios y formación para jóvenes monjas de diversas familias religiosas en la India ” (Carlos Alonso, OSA, “El convento de Santa Monica de Goa durante los primeros decenios del siglo XVIII”).
This is an extensive history of the Augustinian convent of Santa Monica, founded in Goa in 1606. The work includes a detailed biography of Aleixo de Meneses (1559-1617), archbishop of Goa and founder of the convent, as well as shorter accounts of other missionaries connected to the institution. Meneses also oversaw the great expansion of Augustinian missionary work in the East. Lach notes that between 1600 and 1610 convents outside Goa were established on the west coast of India, on the Coromandel coast, and in Ceylon and Bengal. The number of friars for these areas also increased from 99 to 155 in the same years. The Historia provides much information on the Portuguese missions and other aspects of Portuguese expansion in the East. Boxer also used this narrative as a source for early shipwreck narratives.
Chapters include lives of the following Nuns:
Vida da Madre Sor Catherina de Santo Agostinho
Vida da Madre Sor Joanna do Efpirito Santo
Vito da Madre Sor Antonia do Rofario.
Vida da Madre Sor Catherina de Jefas.
Vida da Madre Sor Annade Jefus
Vida do Veneravel Madre Sor Maria da Afumpção
Fazem a Madre Sor Maria da Afumpção Pedagoga
Vidada Irmã Novica Sor Meciado Efpirito Santo
Vida da Madre Sor Elena da Madre de Deos
Vida da Madre Sor Luizada Expectação
Vida da Madre Maria de S. Jofeph
Vida da Madre Sor Guimar da Prefeistacão
Vida da Madre Sor Maria do Sacra-mento
Vida da Madre Sor Agueda de Santa Ignes
Vidada Madre Sor Thomafia de Santa Monica
Vida da Madre Sor Philippada Pre-fentação
Vida da Madre Sor Monica de Santo Agostinho
Vida da Madre Sor Catherina de noffa Senhora do Monte do Carmo
Vida da Irmã Domingas da Paysão de nação Tapoa.
Vida da Irmã Maria do Salvador, Bramena
Vida da Irmã Sor Chrifina de Jefus.
Streit v:639; Palau 298083; Innocencio i, p.18; Lach, Asia in the making of Europe iii, p.141.
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