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Frederic Sandeman de Mattos: Gentle Rogue and Talented Priest: Part One: Ritualist Controversy

Frederic Sandeman de Mattos was born a native of Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1860, the son of Antonio Joaquim de Mattos. His father, a Madeiran who had converted from Roman Catholicism to Presbyterianism, was an ordained minister and served a flock of exiled Portuguese in Jacksonville and Springfield, Illinois.1 Frederic and his brother, James P. de Mattos,2 absorbed the Scottish3 heritage of their mother, Isabella, and there is no evidence that either of them had any familiarity with their Portuguese tradition.

De Mattos (always Frederic hereafter unless specifically indicated otherwise) probably suffered from a deep lack of selfesteem, perhaps derived from the short stature he shared with ...

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