Nuno Álvares Pereira - Batalha, Portugal
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N 39° 39.486 W 008° 49.581
29S E 514896 N 4389825
Statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira on horse.
Waymark Code: WM8ZP4
Location: Leiria, Portugal
Date Posted: 06/05/2010
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Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, (July 24, 1360 – April 1, 1431), also spelled Nun'Álvares Pereira, was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile.
During the last year of his life, King John I went to visit and embrace him for the last time. He wept, for he considered Nuno Álvares Pereira his closest friend, the one who had put him on the throne and saved his country's independence.
He later became a mystic, was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1918 and was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
The statue is next to the Mosteiro da Batalha.
(From Wikipedia)
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