História, santidade e identidade : o Agiologio Lusitano de Jorge Cardoso e o seu contexto

Resumo

Jorge Cardoso's Agiologio Lusitano is one of the great monuments  of 17th Century Portuguese culture. Its explicit intent was to compose an inventory of all the 11lives" of saints and other men and women "illustrious  in virtue" of Portugal and its  conquests",  who were at risk of being "buried in oblivion".  The Agiologio also intended  to praise the "santos da Patrla'', so that the Portuguese  would have models to folow and the ''foreigners'' would recognize Portugal as a "home of holy people". In spite of its incompleteness - the Agiologio was only partially  continued in  the  18th  Century  by  D.  António Caetano  de Sousa  -, this  work  became  an indispensable  reference  for  those  studying  sainthood  in  Portugal  until  the  17th Century, as well as for the study of the religious and social life of the period.