ABSTRACT

This chapter presents an account, by the Japanese travellers, of the things which took place in Lisbon, Évora, Vila Viçosa, and the kingdom of Castile, Toledo, Mantua Carpetana or Madrid. Teotónio de Bragança, son of D. Jaime, the fourth duke of Bragança, archbishop of Évora since 1578. He had been a Jesuit from 1549 to 1555 when he left the order. He was especially interested in the missions in the East Indies, and was an important patron of the Jesuit mission in Japan, and corresponded with Valignano. An ivory statue, of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus, famous and much venerated in its time, was in the Convento de Nossa Senhora do Parásio, founded in the early 15th century. The convent is no longer extant. Another famous, and greatly venerated, image of Jesus was the Menino Jesus de Santa Mónica in the Convento de Santa Mónica.