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CHAPTER-LISTS (The) of the Madre de Deus Province in India 1569-1790. Lisboa. 1960. - CHAPTER-LISTS (The) of the Madre de Deus Province in India 1569-1790 . Edited by fr. Achilles Meersman. Lisboa: Tip. Silvas, 1960. 230 pp.; 240 pp. Edited by Fr. Achilles Meersman, OFM, of the chapter lists of the Province of Madre de Deus, one of the two Franciscan provinces established in Portuguese India, covering the period between 1569 and 1790. The volume records, chapter by chapter, the provincial ministers, guardians, and other officials elected throughout more than two centuries of the order's existence in Goa and its missionary dependencies, constituting an indispensable primary source for the history of the Franciscan presence and Portuguese missionary activity in the East. Esteemed and rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate