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Article: Spirituality and women's monastic life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Portugal.
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- Portuguese Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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In 1739 the Jesuit father Hippolyto Moreyra preached a sermon in the convent of Santa Martha in Lisbon, at the profession ceremony of sister Joaquina Egidia Benta da Natividade, who belonged to a Portuguese noble family. Moreyra's speech is centrally concerned with the pain and pleasure that the sister was to experience from that moment onwards. His words summarize well those aspects of Christian spirituality and women's monastic life that are discussed in this article. In his sermon and in the other sources analysed here the religious choice is associated, on the one hand, with penance and limitations--'obediencia mais prompta; [...] pobreza mais estreita; [...] clauzura ...
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