Bidspirit auction | FONSECA (Tomás da). FÁTIMA: (Cartas

FONSECA (Tomás da). FÁTIMA: (Cartas ao Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa). Rio de Janeiro. 1955. - FONSECA (Tomás da) FÁTIMA: (Cartas ao Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa) . Rio de Janeiro: Editora Germinal, 1955. 416 pp.; 190 mm. First edition. One of Tomás da Fonseca's most controversial works, addressed to Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon and a leading figure in the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Salazar regime. The work develops a systematic critique of the Fatima phenomenon – the alleged apparitions of 1917 and the cult that was built around them – contesting both the authenticity of the visions and the political and ideological exploitation that the Estado Novo and the ecclesiastical hierarchy made of them. Tomás da Fonseca, a former seminarian and militant atheist, saw in Fatima the privileged instrument of a ”reactionary obscurantism” in the service of the dictatorship, an argument he developed throughout his life in multiple works, from the references in *No Rescaldo de Lourdes* to writings directly dedicated to the subject. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate