Cronologia da Congregação do Oratório de Goa

Padre Sebastião do Rego; Aníbal Pinto de Castro; Maria de Jesus dos Mártires Lopes

Cronologia da Congregação do Oratório de Goa

Authors

Padre Sebastião do Rego

Aníbal Pinto de Castro

Maria de Jesus dos Mártires Lopes

CHAM, School of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Keywords:

Congregation of the Oratory of Goa, 17th Century, 18th Century, Religious orders, Evangelization, Goa (Portugal), History of Goa, History of Kanara (India), History of Ceylon, Printed works

Synopsis

An edition of Father Sebastião do Rego's masterpiece, Chronologia da Congregação do Oratório de Goa, a 669-page manuscript kept in the Ajuda Library, with an introductory study. This book is of great interest for missiology, the History of Goa, Kanara and particularly Ceylon, due to its considerable wealth of religious, social, geographic and anthropological information.