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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]

The background of this study is the problem of the reading of works on spirituality, in the XVI-XVIII centuries, in Portugal, especially saints and devoute «Lives», and aims to present a list of their dedications and people to whom they were addressed, trying to call attention to some issues that relate not only to the readings and spiritual practices or devout, but also the relationships with the authors and/or the various religious orders with influential figures of the time, today mostly virtually unknown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze some of the «Lives» of Portuguese religious women of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the topics used by biographers when they proceed to the story about the childhood of the protagonists. On the other hand, this article also seeks to show how the appreciation of the moral virtues, spiritual and devotional practices and behavior of children and young people profiled reflects the introduction, in the field of holiness, of coding models that fall within the process of deep redefinition of holiness outlined by the post-Tridentine church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Portugal, in the eighteenth century, along with works that explicitly offer educational programs targeted to the education of women, will emerge a different kind of texts, also pedagogical and didactic in nature, that, in addition they can also focus on teaching various areas of knowledge (not just one program in the strict sense), recommend and prescribe both behavioral norms and moral teachings. This fits the seam of literature known as social behavior. This study analyzed two works directed to the education of women, namely Thesouro de Meninas, ou Dialogos entre uma sabia aia e suas discípulas (1774), of Madame Leprince de Beaumont, and Thesouro de Meninas, ou Lições d'uma mãi a sua filha, à cerca dos bons costumes e da religião, autorizadas com admiraveis exemplos de virtude e de piedade (1852), of José Inácio Roquette, trying to highlight the publics, the areas of knowledge and insider (s) model (s) educational run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]