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Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara Quotes

1809–1879 Portugal

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (23 June 1809 – 20 February 1879) was a Portuguese physician, professor, intellectual and politician. He excelled as a scholar of the history of the Portuguese presence in India and as a champion of the Konkani language.

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“The Inquisition cannot be absolved from a large share in the persecution of the vernacular ; and what is more, a larger part in the ruin of the Portuguese Empire in Asia.

“It will be clear from the reading of VIII and IX that council, far from forbidding the use of the vernacular, had rather recom- mended its use for the teaching of Christian doctrine.’’

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.