Brás Viegas
Brás Viegas (Blasius de Viegas) (1553–1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit, known as a biblical commentator. Life. He was born in Évora, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1569. He became a teacher at Coimbra and the University of Évora, where he was granted a doctorate in 1594. The book became well known; in it Viegas expressed his expectation for spiritual renewal led by the Society of Jesus. There were later editions, edited by Odoardus Farnesius. It was translated into Ge'ez by Jesuit missionaries. By the Jesuit Vincenzo Bruno (1532–1594).