Nazaré, Portugal
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member tmob
N 39° 35.780 W 009° 04.331
29S E 493802 N 4382958
The town of Nazaré (in English Nazareth)
Waymark Code: WMDHJK
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 01/18/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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«Nazaré is a town in Nazaré Municipality in Portugal with a total area of 82,4 km² and a total population of 14,904 inhabitants. It is in subregion Oeste and Leiria district.

According to the legend of Nazaré, the town derives its name from a small statue of the Virgin Mary, a Black Madonna, brought by a monk in the 4th century from Nazareth, Syria Palaestina to a monastery near the city of Mérida, Spain and brought to its current place in 711 by another monk accompanied by Roderic, the last Visigoth king. After their arrival at the seaside they decided to become hermits. The monk lived and died in a small natural grotto, on top of a cliff above the sea. After his death and according to the monk's wishes, the king buried him in the grotto where he left, on an altar, the statue of the Black Madonna.»

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«According to the New Testament, Nazareth was the home of Joseph and Mary, and place of the Annunciation, when Mary was told by the archangel Gabriel, who had Jesus as his son. Nazareth is also the place where Jesus spent most of his life since his return from Egypt at some point in their childhood to their 30s. (Matthew 1:18 to 2:23)»

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Coordinates are from the monument Mãe Nazarena honoring the mothers of Nazaré, and located in the center of the town.

Bible verse: Matthew Chapter 2, 19-23

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