Conference
Portuguese
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Abstract
Friar Luís de Santa Teresa (O.C.D.) is a little known religious personality of the eighteenth century historiography. With the present paper, we will highlight his Jacobean profile, establishing a strong clientlistic relation with Friar Gaspar da Encarnação, a major figure of “Jacobeia”. This fact, on the one hand, sheds light on the choice of Friar Luís de Santa Teresa as Bishop of Olinda (Pernambuco) in 1738, in a logic of preponderance of religious motivations over political ones and of the return to the old model of the Good Shepherd in the choice of bishops. Furthermore, it also explains its ‘fall from grace’, upon the death of D. João V and the fact that Friar Gaspar da Encarnação was then put aside from the royal circles of influence.