ABSTRACT
Tama Gracia, “while she lived, practiced, and in dying left her great aspiration among all,” said the Jesuit Irmão in his homily in front of her beautifully decorated coffin at the first memorial service in 1600.1 Sealed tight in the box, her charred remains lay still as a mirror of a self-sacrificial wife, her strong mind, will for liberation, and desire for active apostolate now all turned to ashes.
