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Posted: April 27 2009 at 3:56am | IP Logged Quote MaryM

One of the newly canonized saints is Nuno de Santa Maria Alvares Pereira. He has a fascinating story - one I was not aware of (or if I ever learned it forgot it ). Great story (especially for boys) as he was a soldier and fought to free Portugal from Spanish rule. Queen Isabella of Spain was his granddaughter. Since my dh and the children are Portuguese we are going to be learning about him this week.

And this is an amazing resource I found tonight to help us along. It's from the old Treasure Chest of Facts & Fun comic books that I shared more about in this thread. It's seriously a God-thing that I found this - I wasn't looking, but was just clicking around the site and when I saw the name I knew I had just read about him earlier in the day in an article about the canonizations.


Enjoy learning more about this newly canonized saint!

The Holy Count - part 1

The Holy Count - part 2

The Holy Count - part 3






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Posted: April 28 2009 at 8:57am | IP Logged Quote LisaR

wow, thanks for this! our Thomas plays for a Portuguese soccer club, and is really into all things Portugal. what a great Saint!

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