Maria O'Neill

Maria da Conceição Infante de Lacerda Pereira de Eça Custance O'Neill (Lisbon, 19 November 1873 – 23 March 1932) was a Portuguese writer, poet, journalist, and spiritualist of Irish descent.

), daughter of Thomas Parsons Custance, an English subject (married secondly to his aunt Ludovina Cecília O'Neill), and first wife Antónia Eugénia Barbosa de Brito.

), Merchant in Lisbon, where he lived single, Company Administrator, Member of the Administration Council of the Companhia de Seguros Previdente, married to Laura Moreira, without issue, and two aunts, Adelaide O'Neill (?

She died on the high seas, on the Atlantic Ocean, on board of the General Osório, travelling from Brazil back to Portugal after giving one of her Spiritualist Conferences.

She became a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, was a vegetarian, and was initiated into Theosophy, a mystical school or initiatory movement that proposed that all religions arose from common stem teachings while seeking knowledge about the mysteries of human existence, the beginning of life and nature, and later became interested in spiritism, to which she devoted a large part of her existence until the end of her days.