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OLIVEIRA (Francisco Xavier de). DISCOURS Pathétique au Sujets des Calamités Présentes, Arrivées en Portugal. Adressé a mes Compatriotes et en Particulier a Sa Majesté Trés-Fidéle Joseph I. Roi de Portugal. Porto. 1893. - OLIVEIRA (Francisco Xavier de) DISCOURS Pathétique au Sujets des Calamités Présentes, Arrivées en Portugal. Adressé a mes Compatriotes et en Particulier a Sa Majesté Trés-Fidéle Joseph I. Roi de Portugal . Porto: Typographia Occidental, 1893. 94, VI pp.; 175 mm. Portuguese re-edition, published in Porto in 1893, of Discours Pathétique au Sujet des Calamités Présentes, Arrivées en Portugal , a pamphlet by the Knight of Oliveira reacting to the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, originally written and published in London in 1756, addressed to his compatriots and, in particular, to King José I. A dissenting voice amidst the vast Catholic literature sparked by the catastrophe, which tended to interpret it as divine punishment for the nation's sins, the Knight of Oliveira, exiled in England and distanced from Catholic orthodoxy, draws moral and political lessons from the disaster, typical of his heterodox perspective, directed straight at the king and the Portuguese nation. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate