Domingos Pires Ferreira (priest)

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Domingos Pires Ferreira
Born1753
São Frei Pedro Gonçalves, Recife
DiedUnknown
Recife
Occupation Priest
Parents
Family Pires Ferreira

Domingos Pires Ferreira (born 1753) was a liberal priest.

Biography

Domingos was born in the freguesia São Frei Pedro Gonçalves, Recife in 1753 to the merchant Domingos Pires Ferreira and his wife Joana Maria de Deus Correia Pinto. [1]

He entered the University of Coimbra on 1 October 1970, becoming a priest. On 3 March 1772, he began his law studies. He also studied in Salamanca, Spain. [1]

In 1836, Luiz Cavalcanti tried to pass the so-called Mayor Law, which reverted the liberal reforms for more independence from the Empire of Brazil and centralized the nomination of vital political roles in the state of Pernambuco. José Tavares Gomes da Fonseca wrote an article on Diário de Pernambuco , summoning a meeting on 8 April in front of the Church of São Francisco to sign an application against the law, but the police surrounded the area to scare people away. Domingos was one of the six people who tried, nonetheless, to collect the signatures. [2]

Domingos died in Recife on an unknown date. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ferreira, Edgardo Pires (1987). A Mística do Parentesco - Uma Genealogia Inacabada: Domingos Pires Ferreira e Sua Descendência (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). São Paulo: Marques e Marigo Editora. p. 2.
  2. Junior, Manoel Nunes Cavalcanti (2019). "Cultura, Política e Instituições no Brasil Regencial: A Primeira Legislatura da Assembleia Provincial de Pernambuco (1835–1836)" (PDF). Revista Binacional Brasil-Argentina (in Portuguese). 8 (2). State University of Southwestern Bahia: 174–198.