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This document is a manuscript administrative memorandum, dated 3 February 1656 in Lisbon, concerning a petition submitted to the Portuguese Crown regarding Dom Sebastião Lobo, former governor of Maranhão. The text records the intervention of an unnamed informant, who advises that a grievance brought by an aggrieved party through a procurator should be referred to Doctor Diogo Mancado Fernandes Cosme for further information. The petitioner had requested that accounts taken from the Núncio relating to Dom Sebastião Lobo’s administration of his Brotherhood during his governorship be produced, and that he be heard on them. The memorandum notes that the petitioner claimed all papers and documents compiled against Dom Sebastião Lobo, previously removed from Doctor Diogo Mancado Fernandes Cosme, had been taken, and that dismissal of the petition would prevent him from providing information. The document bears the archival stamp of the Arquivo Histórico Colonial do Brasil and the mark of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, and is signed by Comendador Dom António Camargo. This item offers researchers evidence of mid-seventeenth-century colonial administrative procedure, petitioning practices, and the mechanisms of accountability applied to former governors of the State of Maranhão.
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This abstract describes a papal brief issued by Pope Alexander VII on 4 November 1656—though formally dated 20 December 1656 at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome under the Ring of Pope Pius—and addressed to members of the Society of Jesus. The document commends Jesuit missionaries for their spiritual labours, particularly the conversion of Indigenous peoples, emphasising voluntary faith formation through piety, moral instruction, veneration of sacred images, and orderly worship of the true God, rather than coercion. It highlights the missionaries’ humility, virtue, and zeal as indispensable to the Church’s mission, especially in distant regions, and underscores the importance of wisdom, discernment, and learned governance within the religious order. The brief invokes Ignatius of Loyola’s foundational authority and legacy, affirms the Society’s defence of Christianity against adversaries, and announces the dispatch of Charles de Rami, Bishop of Aversa and Papal Nuncio, to convey the Pope’s apostolic benediction and solicit support for Jesuit observances across the recipient’s dominions. The text reflects mid-seventeenth-century ecclesiastical priorities, missionary theology, and hierarchical patronage structures, offering scholars primary evidence on Counter-Reformation pastoral strategy, Jesuit self-representation, and papal diplomacy.
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