"Eu preegador e apostola fuy": pregação feminina num legendário pós-tridentino português (Fr. Diogo do Rosário, 1567).

This article analyzes the lives of two saints that Middle Ages represented as apostles and preachers, Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint Martha, in the first legendary post-Tridentine published in Portugual (1567). Their author, Fr. Diogo do Rosário, tries to comply with the conciliar guidelines. The analysis aims to ascertain whether his work actually puts into practice new methods and new themes, for example giving back to the limits of orthodoxy these two narratives which, in the medieval tradition, did not obey the prohibition that Saint Paul threw on the women's preaching. The analysis will be made by comparing the choices that Fr. Diogo do Rosário made with the textual sources he had at his disposal and by evaluating his innovation on the texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]