The Peace Maker Who Went to War

by John Mathias Haffert

176 pp. paperback

Saint Nuño of  Portugal: The Founder of the Braganza Dynasty and Father of Modern  Portugal was Beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1918 and Canonized by Pope  Benedict XVI in 2009.  Don Nuño Alvarez Perreira went to war, in defense of his country. He  fought, he killed, and he received many decorations. He was wounded, but  he was “lucky” enough to come home.  His rare interior life was centered upon the Mother of God, to whom he was devoted all his life.

Five hundred years after he fought his battles, the Blessed Virgin made  what was perhaps her most spectacular appearance on earth—her appearance  on October 13, 1917, at Fatima, on the very ground on which Nuño  fought, and holding in her hands the very symbols under which Nuño led  his troops in that place, five hundred years before.  This amazing Nuño—Our Lady’s Knight—led a life bridging centuries,  stranger than fiction, fraught with the mystery of war and evil,  gold-touched by the sun of the promise made in 1917 by Our Lady at  Fatima: “In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph and there will be  peace.”

Read More about Saint Nuño in our past newsletter

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