Brás Viegas

Brás Viegas (Blasius de Viegas) (1553–1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit, known as a biblical commentator.

Life

He was born in Évora, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1569. He became a teacher at Coimbra and the University of Évora, where he was granted a doctorate in 1594.^[1]

Works

• Commentarii exegetici in Apocalypsim (1601)

The book became well known; in it Viegas expressed his expectation for spiritual renewal led by the Society of Jesus.^[2] There were later editions, edited by Odoardo Farnese.^[3] It was translated into Ge'ez by Jesuit missionaries.^[4]

• Meditações sobre os mysterios da paixam, resurreiçam, e acensaõ de Christo Nosso Senhor (1601)

By the Jesuit Vincenzo Bruno (1532–1594).^[5]

Further reading

• (in Portuguese) PDF

Notes

1. (in Portuguese) http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/3538.pdf
2. Hilaire Kallendorf, A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism (2010), p. 61; Google Books.
3. WorldCat page
4. Leonardo Cohen, The missionary strategies of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1555-1632) (2009), p. 99; Google Books.
5. Europeana page Archived April 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.