Bispo Alexandre da Sagrada Família - Horta, Portugal
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N 38° 31.926 W 028° 37.594
26S E 358225 N 4266109
A bust of Bispo Alexandre (English: Bishop Alexander) is located in the square named after him (Largo do Bispo Alexandre) in the town of Horta on Faial Island in the Archipelago of the Azores, Portugal.
Waymark Code: WM9VMC
Location: Arquipélago dos Açores, Portugal
Date Posted: 10/01/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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 Bispo Alexandre da Sagrada Família - Horta, Portugal - posted by Biologist Marine

The following excerpt is from a translated Wikipedia listing for Bishop Alexander with some minor clarifications. It's a bit rough, but hopefully satisfactory.

D. Frei Alexandre da Sagrada Familia (Town of Horta, on May 22 of 1737 - Creek, April 22 of 1818 ), born Alexandre José da Silva (although some biographers call Antonio Ferreira da Silva), was the 25th bishop of the Diocese of Angra, and he ruled in 1816 until his death in 1818. He was the first bishop of Angra born in the Azores (which was only followed almost two centuries later, by now, Don Antonio de Sousa Braga). Poet of Merit, he was the paternal uncle of Almeida Garrett, whose education he contributed to, and lived in her parents' home during their stay on the island Terceira.

In addition to his work sacrum, Frei Alexandre da Sagrada Familia also proved a remarkable humanist and poet arcadian, writing under the pseudonym Silvio, by inserting the stream of pseudo-classicism French. He attended the literary evenings of April. Nd Alorna Gurney, D. Leonor de Almeida Portugal de Lorena and Lancaster, the famous ALCIPE, and served as spiritual director, which was attributed to his influence. It was during the 18 years he spent in prison Convent Chelas a result of the process Távoras. He produced at this stage of his lavish lifestyle poetry, which almost all remained unpublished; the fate of manuscripts that his biographers have claimed to have existed at the time of his death is unknown.

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