Sebastião do. Vida do veneravel padre Joseph Vaz, da congregaçaõ do oratorio de S. Filippe Neri da Cidade de Goa, na India Oriental; Fundador da laboriosa Missaõ, que os Congregados desta Casa tem à s

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REGO, Sebastião do. Vida do veneravel padre Joseph Vaz, da congregaçaõ do oratorio de S. Filippe Neri da Cidade de Goa, na India Oriental; Fundador da laboriosa Missaõ, que os Congregados desta Casa tem à sua conta na Ilha de Ceylaõ. Composta pelo padre Sebastiaõ do Rego, da mesma Congregaçaõ. Lisboa: na Regia Officina Sylviana, e da Academia Real. 1745. 4to. Contemporary Portuguese speckled calf, spine decorated in gilt, gilt red morocco lettering-piece, edges speckled red; pp. [xxviii], 354, [2 (blank)] with half-title and final blank; final blank watermarked ‘B. P.’ with fleur-de-lys device; abrasion to rear board, split to upper joint neatly repaired, small areas of restoration to spine upper hinge reinforced, corners worn; top-edge dusty with slight dust-soiling to quire 2N at head, else a very good, clean copy. Scarce first edition of the first biography in book form of Zuze (Joseph) Vaz (1651–1711), a Catholic of Indian parentage from Goa, who became an Oratorian priest and the leading missionary of Sri Lanka, authored by a fellow Goa-born Oratorian and published thirty-four years after Vaz’s death. The work is an important source for Vaz’s life, as well as for Catholic missionary activity in the Kandyan Kingdom (present-day Sri Lanka). Joseph Vaz (1651–1711), known as the ‘Apostle of Ceylon’ and canonised in 2015, was born in Goa into the Brahmin caste. He was educated by the Jesuits in Goa, ordained priest in 1676, and became confessor to D. Rodrigo da Costa, the Gov

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