Sermões

Of Father António Vieira, Fernando Pessoa said that he was the "emperor of the Portuguese language." A Jesuit, orator, and writer, he was born in Lisbon in 1608 and died in 1687 in Brazil, more specifically in Bahia. With a remarkable literary and argumentative construction, his sermons reveal an intense connection with public life, resulting in an eminently functional prose that never loses the level of universality necessary for any enduring work of art. Possessing a powerful intelligence, Father António Vieira architected worlds tailored to his dreams and left us as a legacy a work that would establish itself as one of the paradigms of Portuguese prose.