Sebastião Barradas was a Portuguese exegete and preacher.
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article He was born in Lisbon in 1543 and died in

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto, and Braga, it is the largest cit ...

in 1615. In 1558, he entered the

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. He was a professor of scripture for many years in Coimbra and

Évora Évora ( , ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. It has 53,591 inhabitants (2021), in an area of 1307.08 km2. It is the historic capital of the Alentejo and serves as the seat of the Évora District. Due to its well-preserved old to ...

and was styled the Apostle of Portugal for the zeal of his preaching. He published two works: * (4 vols., Coimbra, 1599-1611). This work, intended for preachers on the Gospels, was frequently reprinted in Germany, Italy and France. The last edition was printed at Sugsburg, 1642. * (Lyons, 1620), a commentary on the Book of Exodus.

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