Devotees

Compilation of texts written by Delmira Maçãs, benefactor of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, published in Stella, a religious magazine with which she maintained regular collaboration. In this volume of the collection titled Miscellany, Delmira Maçãs shares in a lively, rich, and insightful manner, considerations about a countless number of religious and profane episodes, with special emphasis on pilgrimages, processions, and moments of worship at the Sanctuary of Fátima. The author also describes scenes from the lives of the Shepherds and their beatification. In this narrative path, the author shares with the reader her unique perspective on Portugal of the time, in an unmistakably critical and shrewd manner. These writings reveal Delmira Maçãs, a complex and contradictory personality who found in the white of the pages her most stimulating confidant. 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: Miscellany Collection

Year of publication: 2009
ISBN: 9789728761615