Amador Arrais

Dom Frei Amador Arrais de Mendoza (* around 1530 in Beja , Portugal ; † August 1, 1600 in Coimbra , Portugal) was a Portuguese clergyman , theologian, bishop and writer. With his work Dialogos he created one of the most important sacred prose works of Portuguese literature of the 16th century.

life and work

Frei Amador received the Carmelite habit in 1545 and entered the Carmelite order in Lisbon . He studied theology at the University of Coimbra , where he also received his doctorate . In 1568 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in Évora and served under the Cardinal-Infante and later King Dom Heinrich von Avis , who was Archbishop of Évora at that time. In 1581 he was briefly auxiliary bishop in Portalegre , in 1582 he was appointed official bishop of Portalegre. He held this office until 1598.

The former bishop died on August 1st, 1600 in the Carmelite monastery of Coimbra. He is also buried there.

In 1589 - during his lifetime - his work Dialogos was published , a book with fictitious conversations between a sick person, a doctor, a clergyman, a hidalgo and a lawyer. In it, current spiritual and secular issues are discussed for Portugal at the time, at the same time the book, written in the simplest language and in Portuguese , is a work that tries to bring morality and custom into a time that was immoral at the time.

Today one street each in Lisbon and Portalegre are named after him.

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