Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Natividade, José da

NATIVIDADE, Jose da (nah-te-ve-dah'-deh), Brazilian clergyman, b. in Rio Janeiro, 19 March, 1669 ; d. in the monastery of Sao Bento, 9 April, 1715. He entered the Benedictine order, became an eloquent preacher, and^such an excellent logician that he was named Subtil. He took his degree as doctor of theology at the University of Coimbra, and on his return to Brazil became abbot of the monastery at Bahia, and afterward provincial. He left three printed sermons and a book of canonical regulations and moral reflections, which are in the Imperial library.