Conversion II: Choices or Hesitant Steps

Compilation of writings of an autobiographical nature and religious reflection by Delmira Maçãs, benefactor of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, vivid accounts written in the first person. In this third volume of the collection titled Biographical Notes – Steps to Death, Delmira Maçãs expresses the doubts and yearnings born from the profound religious devotion that served as a compass for her existence, confessions that confirm the solid faith that she nurtured throughout her life. “What does it matter that I am a crystal of ice? What does it matter, if You come to illuminate it with Your radiant light? […] Everything depends on the sun on the ice. Everything depends on You in me,” the author summarizes. These writings unveil Delmira Maçãs, a complex and contradictory personality who found in the white of the pages her most stimulating confidant. It was on paper that she meticulously recorded the daily register of life, just as the anguishes felt from dawn to dusk of existence, profound reflection scattered in numerous texts that she methodically preserved throughout her life. The books of Delmira Maçãs were published by the Santa Casa in 2009, in fulfillment of the testamentary charge stipulated by the benefactor to the Misericórdia de Lisboa, the institution she chose as her heir: the publication of her personal writings, of an autobiographical nature, but also of a religious and literary character. This is a set of 16 volumes, organized into three collections: Biographical Notes – Steps to Death, Dialogue with the Gospels, and Miscellany.

Author: Delmira Maçãs
Collection: Biographical Notes. Steps to Death

Year of publication: 2009
ISBN: 9789728761578