About Brás Viegas
Lived 1553 – 1599 (aged 45–46). Brás Viegas was a biblical scholar.
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.
Works Commentarii exegetici in Apocalypsim (1601) 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 Odoardo Farnese. It was translated into Ge'ez by Jesuit missionaries.
Meditações sobre os mysterios da paixam, resurreiçam, e acensaõ de Christo Nosso Senhor (1601) By the Jesuit Vincenzo Bruno (1532–1594).
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Portuguese jesuit
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Brás Viegas was born in 1553.
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Brás Viegas died in 1599.
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Brás Viegas was a biblical scholar.
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