Bidspirit auction | FONSECA (Tomás da). NA COVA

FONSECA (Tomás da). NA COVA dos Leões. Lisboa. 1958. - FONSECA (Tomás da) NA COVA dos Leões . Edição destinada ao Brasil. Lisboa: s.n., 1958. 458-[6] pp.; 180 mm. First edition, published clandestinely and intended for Brazil, the only possible channel of distribution in Portugal. *Na Cova dos Leões* is a series of letters addressed to Cardinal Cerejeira, originally published in the newspaper *República* in 1949 and collected here in this volume. Tomás da Fonseca, then 75 years old, denounces the alliance between the Estado Novo regime and the Catholic Church and argues that the apparitions of Fatima constitute a politically instrumentalized hoax. The reaction of the regime and the ecclesiastical hierarchy was violent; the book was banned in Portugal. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate