Elogios dos reverendissimos padres DD. abbades geraes da Congregação Benedictina do reyno de Portugal, e principado do Brazil
Subtitle: Que offerece ao Rmo. P.P. geral Fr. Joaõ Baptista da Gama ex-geral Benedictino &c. &c
By: Seu autor OP. Fr. Thomaz de Aquino olisiponense, monge, e pregador geral jubilado da mesma congregaçaõ, D. abbade do mosteiro de S. Bento da Victoria da cidade do Porto &c
Publisher: Na Offic. de Francisco Mendes Lima.
Published: 1767
Place of publication: Porto
Language: por
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Benedictines; Catholic Church; Biography; History
Notes: "Noticia da provincia do Brazil": p. 448-452.

The first Benedictines to settle in Brazil came from Portugal in 1581. They established the following monasteries: St. Sebastian, Bahia, (1581); Our Lady of Montserrat, Rio de Janeiro (1589); St. Benedict, Olinda (1640); the Assumption, Sao Paulo (1640); Our Lady's, Parahyba (1641); Our Lady's, Brotas (1650); Our Lady's, near Bahia (1658); and four priories dependent on Sao Paulo. All these remained subject to the Portuguese superiors until 1827, when in consequence of the separation of Brazil from the Kingdom of Portugal, an independent Brazilian congregation was erected by Leo XII, consisting of the above eleven houses, with the Abbot of Bahia as its president. Cf.Catholic Encyclopedia.

Signatures: *⁻****⁴ (*1, ****4 versos blank) A-3L⁴

Errata: p. [30], 1st count.

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Sabin 1861.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.) I: p. 44.

Silva, I.F. da. Bib. portuguez, VII: p. 346-350.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting very top of title page leaf, possibly meant to excise ownership inscription.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.