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Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal. The Parochial Memories of 1758 (Portuguese: Memórias Paroquiais de 1758) are the results of an enquiry sent to every parish in Portugal after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake by the order of Sebastião de Carvalho e Melo, the Secretary of State of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom.
Diogo de Couto, a 16th century historian who served as Guarda-Mor ("High Guardian") of the Torre do Tombo's Portuguese India archives.. The archive is one of the oldest institutions in Portugal, since its installation in one of the towers of the castle in Lisbon, occurring during the reign of Ferdinand I, and likely in 1378 (the date where the first testimony originated).
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Download QR code; Print/export ... Map of Districts of Portugal. Rank District ... Porto (16) 1,785,405 2,395 745.5 3 Braga (17) 846,293
Portugal is the location of one of the major Catholic shrines and Marian pilgrimage sites, at Fátima, honouring Our Lady of Fátima. The northern city of Braga is an important Catholic centre. A Portuguese saying which lists characteristics of different cities states that "Coimbra studies, Braga prays, Lisbon shows off and Porto works". [ 14 ]
* Parochial Archive (ed.), Livro de Visitações da Igreja de Santa Bárbara (1661–1704) (in Portuguese), Vila do Porto (Azores), Portugal: Arquivo Paroquial de Vila do Porto Carbalho, Manuel Chaves (2001), Igrejas e Ermidas de Santa Maria, em Verso (in Portuguese), Vila do Porto (Azores), Portugal: Câmara Municipal de Vila do Porto, p. 84
The following is a list of churches in Portugal by district or autonomous region. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( December 2014 )
Capela, José Viriato; Matos, Henrique; Borralheiro, Rogério (2009), "As Freguesias do Distrito do Porto nas Memórias Paroquiais de 1758", Memórias, História e Património (in Portuguese), Braga, Portugal, pp. 598–600 {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher