As religiosas do convento da ajuda do rio de janeiro e a atuação administrativa do bispo d. Fr. Antônio do desterro malheiros na clausura

The article will bring a mapping of the candidates to the novitiate and the religious profession of the Convent of Our Lady of the conception of the aid, at the beginning of its foundation, in the year 1750. They are in all, thirteen requests, which mostly were to be inhabited and professed in the said convent, or for a temporary recollection for various reasons. In the composition of the work, they will be indicated: the place of origin, the name of their parents or guardians, if in fact they became religious and the age and the year in which they died. From this stage, we will try to understand how the Benedictine Bishop D. Fr. Antonio of the Exile Malheiros (1746-1773) ruled the then convent by means of the constitutions prepared by him in 1750, thus exerting his power against the religious.