The sermons for which the Dominican FREI PEDRO CALVO (born _c._ 1550) was celebrated were published in _Homilias de Quaresma_ (2 pts., 1627, 9), and at the repeated request of a friend he wrote his _Defensam das Lagrimas dos ivstos persegvidos_ (1618) to prove that ‘tears shed in time of trouble do not lessen merit’. The _Sermões_ (1618) and _Considerações_ (1619, 20, 33) of FREI THOMAS DA VEIGA (1578-1638), like his father a Professor of Coimbra University, are written in a style of great excellence, as, although a trifle more redundant[570] and latinized, is that of his contemporary, like him a Franciscan, FREI JOÃO DA CEITA (1578-1633), whose prose has a natural grace and harmony, if it is less pure and indigenous than that of Luz. His best known works are the _Quadragena de Sermoens_ (1619) and _Quadragena Segunda_ (1625). Two more volumes of _Sermões_ (1634, 5) appeared after his death. Two slightly later writers were FREI CRISTOVAM DE LISBOA (†1652), brother of Manuel Severim de Faria, and FREI CRISTOVAM DE ALMEIDA (1620-79), Bishop of Martyria. The former, author of _Jardim da Sagrada Escriptura_ (1653) and _Consolaçam de Afflictos e Allivio de Lastimados_ (1742), in the preface to his _Santoral de Varios Sermões_ (1638) deplores the new fashion of certain preachers who hide their meaning under their eloquence. He is himself sometimes inclined to be florid. Bishop Almeida attained a reputation for great eloquence even in the days of Antonio Vieira.[571] His _Sermões_ (1673, 80, 86) are simpler than those of Vieira, but for the reader their prose lacks the quiet precision of Ceita, Veiga, or Luz, whose sermons may be considered one of the sources from which a greater master of Portuguese, Manuel Bernardes, derived his magic. The Jesuit LUIS ALVAREZ (1615?-1709?), who was born a few years after Vieira, and lived on into the eighteenth century, also had a great reputation as a preacher. The fire is absent from the printed page, but his works, _Sermões da Quaresma_ (3 pts., 1688, 94, 99), _Amor Sagrado_ (1673), and _Ceo de graça, inferno custoso_ 1692), are notable for the purity of their prose.