António Gonçalves de Bandarra

Gonçalo Anes Bandarra (* 1500 in Trancoso, Guarda District, Portugal, † 1556 in Trancoso ) was a Portuguese shoemaker, poet and prophet. They called him the " Portuguese Nostradamus ".

Life and work

The Jew Bandarra worked as a shoemaker in the small village of Trancoso. Since his youth he wrote verses. Between 1530 and 1540 appeared manuscripts in which his verses were written at the same time were the verses wisdom and predictions Profezeihungen about future events that affected Portugal and - as we now know - completely so arrived, as he had predicted it.

These verses brought him a summons to appear in 1541, the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Lisbon. There he was sentenced, his verses were banned and he was not allowed to announce his idiosyncratic interpretations of the Bible in public. Various manuscripts of the verses went through the population and were passed under hand. The book was a kind of national Bible Portugal next to the Lusiads of Camões. A translation into German is not done until the present day.

The Profezeihungen

The rhyming verses, divided into stanzas, first published in 1603 in Paris in pressure. Dom João de Castro, a man not known, this brought out under the title Paraphase et concordancia de alguas prophecias de Bandarra, capateria de Trancoso, por IOAM de Castro, 1603. 1644 was in Nantes, 1809 in Barcelona and 1815 in London printed.

In the verses of a " desired " and King was " veiled " spoken, that shall come to his end in Morocco and die young. In addition, Portugal would be filled of Castile for a long time, until then I'm a king and liberate the country. Whenever Portugal somehow seemed in danger, so napoleanischer about after the earthquake in 1755, the invasion troops in 1809, the danger of being drawn into the Second World War ( from 1940 ), or even during the financial crisis (from about 2008) witnessed the verses and books always new editions.

In verses no names are mentioned, but the " Desired One " (O Desejo ) was King Sebastian meant, blue-eyed, blond -haired, impotent and eccentric, the most unusual king, whom Portugal has ever had. He was the son of the actual heir to the throne and in 1554 - just two years before the death Bandarras - born and only 24 years old. Even the name of the king was knocked to religious meanings, so he was the first and only king of the world history of that name, and died as a martyr for the Catholic faith, like its namesake, Saint Sebastian in antiquity. All Bandarra had just predicted. The verherrende defeat in the battle of Alcácer - Quibir he predicted.

With the " cloaked " King Dom João IV was mostly meant that no one could have foreseen and the personal union with Spain ended Portugal and brought back his old power and glory. These predictions were consistent.

The Profezeihungen had a major impact on the spiritual life of Portugal: it shall be the founding theory for the Sebastianismus, a messianic idea, after King Sebastian return again when Portugal was in great danger. The influence was also to António Vieira, the great thinkers and humanists of Portugal in the 16th century, extended by the verses of the idea of ​​the so-called " Fifth Empire ", which he regarded as Portugal announced.

Fernando Pessoa wrote of Gonçalo Anes Bandarra a poem that he published in his only book of poems " Mensagem ". Pessoa was referring to Bandarra and went as Vieira believes that Portugal would be the last, so-called " Fifth Empire " at the end of time. Unlike Vieira but he did not speak of a political, economic or geographic mighty empire, but as a religious and spiritual superpower. In fact, today there are scientists who ascribe the verses of Bandarra to speak of Portugal as one of the most important nations of Catholicism around the world and also the importance of Portuguese literature to have the end of the twentieth century (including many translations, Nobel Prize ) anticipated.

Trivia

Bandarra has remained the most important figure of his home town of Trancoso. A monument in front of City Hall and the designation of a school remember him in the city.

Bandarra is at least three years older than its French counterpart, Nostradamus.

Two years after the birth of King Dom Sebastian died Bandarra, for many, a proof of his chosen people.

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• Www.vidaslusofonas.pt / bandarra.htm
• Www.comunidade.sol.pt/blogs/321123a1/archive/2007/03/31
• Www.astormentas.com / PT / biografia / Gon % C3A7alo

• Author
• Prophet
• Portuguese
• Born in the 15th or 16th century
• Died in 1556
• Man