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Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ (29 July 1859 – 1 October 1948), more commonly known as Father Cruz (Portuguese: Padre Cruz) was a Portuguese Catholic priest. Revered in Portugal for his apostolic fervor and charity, he visited prisons and hospitals in every city, gave alms to the poor and ministered spiritually to all, achieving a great reputation for sanctity.
Heredeiros da Crus is a Galician rock and roll band [1] formed in 1992 by Antón Axeitos (Tonhito de Poi) in Ribeira, A Coruña.The rest of the band members were Antonio Novo (Tuchiño) as main guitarist, Francisco Velo (O Jran fran) playing the bass and the frontman and singer Javier Vazquez Maneiro (Jarfuxo).
Gaspar da Cruz (c. 1520 – 5 February 1570; sometimes also known under an Hispanized version of his name, Gaspar de la Cruz [1]) was a Portuguese Dominican friar born in Évora, who traveled to Asia and wrote one of the first detailed European accounts about China.
Francisco Xavier da Cruz, also known as B. Leza or Beleza (earlier Portuguese form: Beléza) (December 3, 1905 – July 14, 1958) was a Cape Verdean writer, composer and singer of morna music.. Biography
Delmiro Augusto da Cruz Gouveia, better known as Delmiro Gouveia (Ipu, June 5 of 1863 — Pedra, October 10 1917), was a Brazilian industrialist and entrepreneur.. One of the pioneers of the industrialization of Brazil and the use of its hydroelectric potential, when he built the first hydroelectric plant in the Northeast and the second in the country, the Usina de Angiquinho, preceded only by ...
Fortín San Juan de la Cruz (Fort Saint John of the Cross), most commonly known as El Cañuelo, was built on Isla de Cabras in the Palo Seco barrio of the municipality of Toa Baja, at the western end of the entrance to San Juan Bay, in Puerto Rico. The square coastal fort has massive sandstone walls that date back to the 1630s. Although the U.S ...
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva (4 July 1731 in Lisbon – 5 October 1799 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Portuguese magistrate and heroic-comic poet, son of a Lisbon carpenter who emigrated to the Portuguese colony of Brazil shortly before the poet's birth, leaving his wife to support and educate her young family by the earnings of her needle.
In December 1832, 18-year-old De la Cruz, along with indio secular priest Br. Ciriaco de los Santos and 19 other individuals from Tayabas, founded the Hermandad de la Archi-Cofradía del Glorioso Señor San José y de la Virgen del Rosario (Brotherhood of the Great Sodality of the Glorious Lord Saint Joseph and of the Virgin of the Rosary), shortened to Cofradía de San José (Confraternity of ...