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António de Mendonça

António de Mendonça

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D. António de Mendonça (1600 – 13 February 1675, in Lisbon) was Archbishop of Lisbon between 1670 and his death. He was the son of Nuno de Mendonça, 1st Count of Vale de Reis[1] and was one of the main exponents in the fight against the excesses practiced by the Portuguese Inquisition.[2]

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  1. [1]
    Editores propritários (1864). Archivo pittoresco (in Portuguese). Vol. 7. Lisboa: Typographia de Castro Irmão. p. 221.
  2. [2]
    Joseph Lavallée (1822). Historia completa das inquisic̜ões de Italia, Hespanha, e Portugal: Ornada com oito estampas analogas aos principaes objectos que nella se tratão (in Portuguese) (2 ed.). Lisboa: Typographia Maigrense. p. 294.
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