2014Blessed Friar Bartolomeu dos Mártires - 500 Years - First Day Cover MS

The 3rd May 2014 marks the commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Blessed Friar Bartolomeu dos Mártires, Archbishop of Braga, and one of the prominent personalities of the sixteenth century. He was born in 1514 in the parish of Mártires in Lisbon, patronym which he adopted, and at the age of fifteen he entered the Order of Preachers, professing the Dominican religious life in the São Domingos Convent of Lisbon in 1529.