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3 unusual facts about José Sebastião de Almeida Neto


José Sebastião de Almeida Neto

On 4 September 1913, at Sigmaringen Castle, he married the exiled King Manuel II of Portugal, whom he had baptized, and given first communion and confirmation, to his cousin, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern.

As the Patriarch of Lisbon he presided over the wedding of Prince Don Carlos with Amélie of Orléans, in the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon on 22 May 1886.

On 28 April 1928, the body was exhumed and solemnly translated to Lisbon, where he was buried on 30 April at the tomb of the patriarchs of the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora.



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