Nuno Álvares Pereira

Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, OCarm was a very successful Portuguese general who had a decisive role in the 1383–1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic and was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1918, and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.

24 June 1360

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