The Vicar and the Earthquake: Conflict, Controversy, and a Christening during the Great Lisbon Disaster of 1755
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1 janvier 2012
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Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Richard Goddard anti-Catholicism religious toleration eighteenth century natural disasterSujets proches
Correspondence, reminiscences, etc Letters Correspondence, reminiscences, etc Letters Description Description, geography Bigotry Tolerance Intolerance Hours (Time) Papers Correspondence Article 18th century Catholicism Roman Catholicism Roman Catholic Church Christening Immersion, Baptismal AntipapismCiter ce document
Mark Molesky, « The Vicar and the Earthquake: Conflict, Controversy, and a Christening during the Great Lisbon Disaster of 1755 », e-Journal of Portuguese History, ID : 10670/1.36olbo
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This article examines five letters written by Richard Goddard, an Anglican pastor from Swindon, England and a survivor of the Lisbon earthquake. Produced on faded paper in a legible cursive script, they offer a personal, detailed, and highly revealing description of the events of All Saints Day (November 1) 1755, discussing not only the earthquake and tsunami, but also the great fire that began almost immediately after the first tremor and burned for more than a week. In one notable and well publicized episode at the time, Reverend Goddard is forcibly baptized into the Catholic Church by a crowd of pious Lisboetas in the hour after the earthquake.