Lourenço da Silva de Mendouça
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Lourenço da Silva de Mendouça (1620-1698)[1], probably born in Brazil, went to Lisbon in 1681, then Madrid in 1682 where he became procurator-general of the Confraternity of Our Lady, Star of the Negroes, a charitable lay society in Brazil and Portuguese Africa.[2] Lourenço, claiming to be descended from kings of Kongo and Angola, travelled to Rome in 1684 to protest to the Pope against slavery. His petitions, which presented a firsthand account of the cruelties inflicted by slavery,[3] supported by Capuchin missionaries, convinced the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and led directly to the March 20th, 1686 condemnation by Pope Innocent XI.[4]
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- ^ Abstract Jose Lingna Nafafe - RETHINKING THE IBERIAN ATLANTIC - University of Liverpool
- ^ Mullett, Michael A. (1999) The Catholic Reformation. p. 194. OCLC 50553439.
- ^ Gray, Richard. (1997) "The Kongo Kingdom and the Papacy". History Today. 47: 44. OCLC 86379560.
- ^ Hastings, Adrian. (1996) The Church in Africa: 1450-1950. p. 125. OCLC 44954750.
