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MEERSMAN (Fr. Achilles). ANNUAL Reports of the Portuguese Franciscans in India 1713-1833. Lisboa. 1972. - MEERSMAN (Fr. Achilles) ANNUAL Reports of the Portuguese Franciscans in India 1713-1833 . Collected and annotated by Fr. Achilles Meersman. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos, 1972. XVIII, 492 pp.; 230 mm. Collection of annual reports from Portuguese Franciscan houses in India, between 1713 and 1833, collected and annotated by Fr. Achilles Meersman, OFM. The reports document, year by year, the state of the Franciscan parishes, convents, and residences in the Portuguese conquests of the East, with information on the number of religious and the situation of each house, covering more than a century of the order's life until the eve of the extinction of religious orders in Portugal and overseas, decreed in 1834. Highly valued and rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate