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Sardinha was ordained a bishop by Dom Fernando de Menezes Coutinho e Vasconcellos, taking office on June 22, 1552. He resigned on June 2, 1556. On July 16, 1556, he and his crew were shipwrecked and captured by the Caeté people in the Captaincy of Pernambuco , a Portuguese administrative district that covered the region north of Bahia.
In June 2012, the Casa dos Bicos became the head office of the José Saramago Foundation, whose statutes were updated to reflect its new status as a public foundation, [1] [2] by an agreement with the Lisbon city council. [3] The foundation opened a permanent exhibition titled The Seed and the Fruits about the life and public works of José ...
Casa Branca (Portuguese for "White House") is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 30,520 (2020 est.) in an area of 864 km 2. [2] It was founded in 1841. Its nickname is "the Jabuticaba capital" It is known for the jabuticaba festival held in September, when people can purchase a variety of goods made from the ...
Sardinha studied law at the University of Coimbra and graduated in 1911. [2] During his student years, he was a supporter of republicanism and briefly of anarcho-syndicalism , [ 2 ] but by 1911 he had become a strong advocate of monarchism and Catholicism , partly because of the influence of his highly conservative mother. [ 3 ]
The Sistema Único de Saúde (Portuguese pronunciation: [sisˈtemɐ ˈuniku dʒi saˈudʒi], Unified Health System), [3] better known by the acronym SUS, is Brazil's publicly funded health care system. Created in 1990, the SUS is the largest government-run public health care system in the world, by number of beneficiaries/users (virtually 100% ...
In 2011, a local currency called CDD was created for use exclusively in the Cidade de Deus, to encourage inhabitants to spend more locally, thus boosting the local economy. The currency is subsidized. Its value is indexed [1] to about 20% higher than the national currency, the Brazilian real. [2]
The Museum-Residence of Guerra Junqueiro (Portuguese: Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro) is a former-residence and museum located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the Portuguese north, municipality of Porto, classified as a Imóvel de Interesse Público (Property of Public Interest).
City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian epic crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund. The screenplay, written by Bráulio Mantovani , is adapted from the 1997 novel by Paulo Lins , though the plot is also loosely based on real events.