Amadeus of Portugal
Amadeus of Portugal (Campo Maior, Portugal ca. 1420 – Milan, Duchy of Milan, 10 August 1482), born João de Menezes da Silva, was a Portuguese nobleman who became first a Hieronymite monk, then left that life to become a friar of the Franciscan Order. Later he became a reformer of that religious order, which led to his founding of a distinct branch of the Friars Minor that was named after him, but later suppressed by the Pope in order to unite them into one great family of Friars Minor Observants (1568).
Amadeus of Portugal OFM | |
|---|---|
Vera effigies, published in Pietro Ridolfi's Historiarum Seraphicae Religionis, 1586 | |
| Confessor | |
| Born | João de Menezes da Silva circa 1420 Campo Maior, Alentejo Region, Kingdom of Portugal |
| Died | 10 August 1482 Milan, Duchy of Milan |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church (Franciscan & Conceptionist Orders, Spain & Portugal) |
| Feast | 12 August |
| Attributes | Reformer of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) |
| Major works | Apocalypsis nova |
His Apocalypsis nova, which contained prophecies of a pope, the "Angelic Pastor", who would work with an emperor to restore harmony in the church and the world, was influential well into the next century, in Rome and the monarchies of Spain and Portugal.