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Count Saint Nuno Alvares Pereira: A Warrior and a Man of Faith. On April 26, 2009, the Portuguese Count Nuno Alvares Pereira is to be canonized, nearly six centuries after his death. Saint Nuno Alvares had a brilliant military career and became the Constable of Portugal.

Nuno Álvares Pereira , também conhecido como o Santo Condestável, formalmente São Nuno de Santa Maria ou simplesmente Nun'Álvares (Paço do Bonjardim ou Flor da Rosa, 24 de junho de 1360 [1] – Lisboa, 1 de novembro de 1431 [2]), foi um nobre e general português do século XIV.

Nuno Álvares Pereira (1360? - 1431) assume o comando das forças portuguesas durante a crise de 1383/85 e derrota por duas vezes - em Atoleiros e Aljubarrota - os exércitos espanhóis. Nuno Álvares...

6 November Memorial. Nuno Álvares Pereira was born in Portugal on 24 th June 1360, most probably at Cernache do Bomjardin, illegitimate son of Brother Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, Hospitalier Knight of St. John of Jerusalem and prior of Crato and Donna Iria Gonçalves do Carvalhal. About a year after his birth, the child was legitimized by ...

Nuno had an inauspicious beginning as the illegitimate son of Brother Alvaro Goncalves Pereira, who was the Hospitaller Knight of St. John of Jerusalem and prior of Crato. His mother, Donna Iria Goncalves do Carvalhal, gave birth to Nuno on June 24, 1360 at Crato in central Portugal.

A Portuguese general of great success, who played a decisive role in the 1383-1385 crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile and who would later become a mystic, Nuno Álvares Pereira was a native of Quinta do Bonjardim, near Sertã, Portugal, one of thirty three children born to Dom...