a Portuguese theologian, was born at Torres-Vedras about 1592; was for some time instructor in theology at the convent of the Dominican order to which he himself belonged: and died in 1677. He published De Scientia Dei (Lisbon, 1866, 4to): — De Praedestinationis Excequatione (ibid. 1667, 4to; Lyons, 1674): — De Voluntate et de Trinitate (ibid. 1669, 4to). He also left several valuable works in MS. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, vol. 32, s.v.