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This study aims to draw attention to some letters written by Father João Cardim (S.J.), especially those that were addressed to his mother, Catarina de Andrada, and his sister, Mother Isabel de São Francisco (O.S.H), as they allow to listen up spiritual ascending, held, in this case, through advice and spiritual guidance, by this religious, despite his youth. Thus, these letters show us some interesting vectors of the guidance of the spiritual life and consciousness direction in the XVIIth century in Portugal: recommended readings, modes of prayer or ascetic and devotional practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the examples of military «saints» included in the four volumes of Agiologio Lusitano dos Santos, e Varoens ilustres em virtude do Reino de Portugal, e suas conquistas (published between 1652 and 1744), by Jorge Cardoso and D. António Caetano de Sousa, this article seeks to draw attention to the sustainability of the prestige that accompanies this hagiographic model and the various updates that it suffered, in a context marked by the attempt to construct a history of the territorial «sanctity» of portuguese kingdom, enabling it to rival with other European catholic spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]