CARDOSO, JORGE. - Portuguese priest and hagiographer, b. at Lisbon on 31 Dec. 1606, d. on 3 Oct. 1669.
A disciple of Fr. Francisco de Macedo, he left us the Agiológio lusitano, compiled on the basis of lengthy investigations in the archives of the peninsula, in which the history and geography of Portugal, its conquests, and the evangelization of the subjected regions are treated, and which, in the author's intention, was also to include local traditions and legends. The list of Portuguese saints is arranged over the first four months of the year, and each of them is devoted a learned commentary and notes. His other works, not a few of them in manuscript, include L'Ufficio menor dos santos de Portugal (1629), La relaça da fundação do convento da Madre de Deus, etc.