Jackson de Figueiredo
Jackson de Figueiredo Martins ( born October 9, 1891 in Aracaju, Brazil, † November 4, 1928 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian lawyer, intellectual and journalist.
Life
De Figueiredo was a very prominent intellectuals and journalist in Brazil. Motivated by the Pastoral Letter of 1916, the Bishop of Olinda, Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra, he converted to Catholicism in 1918, which he caused a sensation and became the reference point of the laity Brazilian Catholicism. His conversion was also the decisive impulse to the formation of a conservative political Catholicism in Brazil. With this intention, and encouraged by Bishop Leme da Silveira 1922, he founded the Centro Dom Vital, named after the late Bishop of Olinda Vital Conçalves Maria de Oliveira and 1921, the magazine A Ordem ( The Order ). With these two he opposed communism and liberalism of his time.
He died in 1928 in Rio de Janeiro, but his influence continued and eventually led to the founding in 1932 of the League Electoral Católica - LEC as a Catholic representation for the Constituent Assembly, which convened President Getúlio Vargas Dornelles.