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CORDEIRO (Valério A.). VIDA DO BEATO Nuno Álvarez Pereira (Santo Condestável). Lisboa. 1919. - CORDEIRO (Valério A.) VIDA DO BEATO Nuno Álvarez Pereira (Santo Condestável) . Lisboa: Edição da Livraria Catholica, 1919. 244, [4] pp.: il.; 195 mm. Nuno Álvares Pereira (Cernache do Bonjardim, 1360-Lisbon, 1431), the ”Holy Constable, ” was the most celebrated Portuguese captain of the 14th century, hero of the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) and a pillar in the foundation of the Avis dynasty. Converted to religious life, he entered the Carmelite Convent in Lisbon as Friar Nuno de Santa Maria. Beatified in 1918, this volume by Father Valério A. Cordeiro was published the year after the beatification as a work of hagiographic dissemination. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate