Monument by the authorship of Master José Rodrigues, inaugurated in 2000. Evokes one of the most emblematic personalities of this municipality and one of the most charismatic figures of the Catholic Church in the last decades of the 20th century.
Born in the village of Pereira, in the parish of St. Clemente de Basto, in 1928, accomplished the highest ecclesiastical position of our country as Archbishop of Lisbon, from 1971 to 1998, and was the 15th Patriarch of Lisbon.
Location: Celorico de Basto
Born in the village of Pereira, in the parish of St. Clemente de Basto, in 1928, accomplished the highest ecclesiastical position of our country as Archbishop of Lisbon, from 1971 to 1998, and was the 15th Patriarch of Lisbon.
Location: Celorico de Basto
