TOMMASO di GESÙ (de Andrada). - Augustinian mystic, born in Lisbon to the Alvarez de Andrada family ca. 1530, died in Morocco on 17 April 1582; he took his vows in the local convent in 1548, studied at the University of Coimbra, and distinguished himself, among the disciples of Montoya (q.v.), for his spirit of penance and prayer.
Chaplain in the ill-fated African expedition of King Sebastian, he was wounded and taken prisoner in the defeat at Alcazar Quivir (4 August 1578). He ceded the ransom received from the Countess of Linhares, his sister, to others; he remained among his fellow sufferers to preserve the prisoners in the faith and to convert those who had apostatized. While in captivity, he wrote several catechetical booklets and *Os trabalhos de Jesus* (Part 1, Lisbon 1602; Part 2, 1610), pathetic contemplations on the "sufferings of Jesus" based on a diligent study—conducted without the aid of books—of the Passion in the Gospels. This text, a masterpiece of Portuguese mystical literature, was translated multiple times into Spanish (Madrid 1628, etc.), then into French, Italian (P. Li Fiori, Rome 1644), Latin, German, English, and Dutch.