The article intends to examine the connection between individual and society, from a biographical reconstitution of Father Lourenço de Mendonça, vicar, Inquisition commissioner and general preacher in Peru and Brazil, in the first half of the seventeenth century. The analysis of the memorials addressed by Father Mendoza to the king and their council allows presuming that Mendonças personal purposes were subordinated to a strategy aimed at conversion, missionary activities and the establishment of an ecclesiastical power in colonial America.
biography; Father Lourenço de Mendonça; Colonial America; Seventeenth Century.