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Manuel da Maia (5 August 1677, baptised – 17 September 1768) was a Portuguese architect, engineer, and archivist. Maia is primarily remembered for his leadership in the reconstruction efforts following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake , alongside Eugénio dos Santos and Carlos Mardel .
Page from Ilustração Portuguesa, 29 October 1917, showing the people looking at the Sun during the Fátima apparitions attributed to the Virgin Mary. The Miracle of the Sun (Portuguese: Milagre do Sol), also known as the Miracle of Fátima, is a series of events reported to have occurred miraculously on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd who had gathered in Fátima, Portugal, in ...
Nossa Senhora de Fátima (English: Our Lady of Fátima) was a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Lisbon.It had a total area of 1.87 km 2 and total population of 27.111 inhabitants (2001); density: 14,528.9 inhabitants/km 2.
(c. 1470–1520) Martim Vasques da Maia (1492–1548) Fernão Ferreira da Maia (1520–1580) D. Senhorinha Fernandes Ferreira da Maia (1540–1586) Manuel Álvares da Maia (1580–1640) D. Ana Manuel da Maia (c. 1600–1656) D. Francisca Dias Ferreira da Maia (1630–1690) D. Maria Ferreira da Maia (1670–1720) D. Ana Rodrigues Ferreira da Maia
The rebels, who used the nationalist anthem A Portuguesa as their marching song, took the Paços do Concelho, from whose balcony, the republican journalist and politician Augusto Manuel Alves da Veiga proclaimed the establishment of the republic in Portugal and hoisted a red and green flag belonging to the Federal Democratic Centre. The ...
Avé de Fátima (English: Fátima Ave), also known as the Fátima Hymn, is a popular Roman Catholic Marian hymn.It is sung in honour of Our Lady of Fátima, a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal.
Maia is located along the northern coast of São Miguel, situated between the civil parishes of São Brás (in the west) and Lomba da Maia (in the east) in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, with the municipalities of Vila Franca do Campo and Povoação to the south. This southern border makes-up part of the Serra da Tronqueira, a rugged ridge ...
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz. The Church-Shrine of Our Lady of Light (Portuguese: Igreja-Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Luz) is a Marian shrine and Catholic church in freguesia Carnide of Lisbon, Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.