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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.
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 ...
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.
Primitively referred to as the Castelo de Santo António nu lugar da Cruz (because of the chapel located within its walls), [3] the fort that would be known as Santa Cruz, was planned-out during Benedetto's visit in 1567, which also included the stationing of an artillery company on its grounds. Its construction was unlikely to have taken long ...
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
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).
González was born in the city of Asunción, then part of the Governorate of New Andalusia, on 17 November 1576. [1] He was the son of a Spanish conquistador named Bartolomé González de Villaverde and Asuncion-born María de Santa Cruz, daughter of the Spaniard Juan de Santa Cruz and a Guarani woman.
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis, nulla talem silva profert flore, fronde, germine, dulce lignum dulce clavo dulce pondus sustinens. Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera, et rigor lentescat ille quem dedit nativitas, ut superni membra regis mite tendas stipite. Sola digna tu fuisti ferre pretium saeculi