Amadeu da Silva Meneses

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Amadeus da Silva Meneses , also Amadeus of Portugal or Amadeus Menez , (* around 1420 in Campo Maior , Portugal , (according to other sources: Ceuta ), then Kingdom of Portugal and Algarve; † August 10, 1482 in Milan , Italy ), OFM , was a Portuguese monk, religious reformer and mystic .

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Amadeus Menez comes from a noble Portuguese family and was born as the brother of Saint Beatrix da Silva Meneses . First he was a knight in the service of the Portuguese crown against the Moors and was badly wounded.

At the age of fifteen, he joined the third Franciscan order in 1435 and was ordained a priest in 1459, after having lived in Guadelupe for around ten years . He later came to Rome and founded twenty-one Franciscan reform conventions there and in other parts of Italy.

He got to know the later Pope Sixtus IV , who became a friend and patron of him. From 1471 Menez was counselor and confessor of the pontiff. Sixtus supported him in founding his reform branches, which were called Amadeists after the founder .

His theological works include apocalyptic texts about the end times, which were found in the electoral archives in Düsseldorf in 1794 , and texts about the reinstatement of the seven fallen archangels.

After his death many miracles took place and he was considered a blessed early on by the people, whose acts of beatification are still in Rome today .

Work (selection)

  • De revelationibus et prophetiis (without year).
  • Aperietur in tempore , (Apokalyptische Prophezeihunen), found in 1794 in the Electoral Archives in Düsseldorf.

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personal data
SURNAME Silva Meneses, Amadeu there
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silva Meneses, Amadeus da (full name); Portugal, Amadeus of; Menez, Amadeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese monk, religious reformer and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH Campo Maior , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1482
Place of death Milan , Italy