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Marquis de Pombal (1171 words) |
 | Pombal then retired to a country estate near Soure, and in his thirty-ninth year received his first public appointment, being sent as minister to London in 1738. |
| As soon as he was sure of success, Pombal made peace with Rome and in June, 1770, admitted a nuncio, but the ecclesiastical system of Portugal remained henceforth a sort of disguised Anglicanism, and many of the evils from which the Church now suffers are a legacy from him. |
| Even to the end Pombal had many admirers among the clergy, and he is regarded by the Portuguese as one of their greatest statesmen and called the great Marquis. |
| Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal: Information from Answers.com (1906 words) |
| Pombal is notable for his swift and competent leadership in the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. |
| Pombal was an important precursor for the suppression of the Jesuits throughout Europe and its colonies, which culminated in 1773, when Pope Clement XIV abolished the order. |
| Maxwell, Kenneth, Pombal - Paradox of the Enlightment, Cambridge 1995. |
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