Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira
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Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, GCC, GCSE, GCIH was a Portuguese cardinal who served as Patriarch of Lisbon from 1929 to 1971. His cardinalate of forty-eight years was the longest since the fifty-eight-ye
Cardinal Cerejeira in 1960
Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira in 1930 (Archive of RVCMBSM)
António de Oliveira Salazar
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António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional, he refr
Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira
…became a faculty member of the University of Coimbra, during which time he became a respected and revered intellectual and religious figure. He also met António de Oliveira Salazar and the two later became leading figures in the Centro Académico de Democracia Cristã (Academic Centre for Christian Democracy), which supported the…
Formal portrait, c. 1968
Salazar's birthplace in Santa Comba Dão
A propaganda poster depicting Salazar as King Afonso I of Portugal. The motto on the shield says "Everything for the nation, nothing against the nation" and that at the foot says "Fortunate fatherland that has such sons".
Tarrafal concentration camp