(1360-1431) Nuno Alvares Pereira, founder of the house of Braganza, was born in Cernache do Bonjardim, Portugal, on 24th July 1360. As Constable of the Kingdom of Portugal, he was the general who led the successful war of independence against Spain. He became a national hero and his deeds were commemorated by L. Camoes in the Lustiadas. Following the death of his wife, he joined the Carmelites in 1423 in Lisbon, in the house which he himself had founded for the Carmelites. He asked to become a simple lay brother and took the name of Brother Nuno of Saint Mary. He died in the convent on Easter Sunday, 1st April 1431, having given throughout his life a witness of prayer, penitence, love of the poor and filial devotion to our Lady. His cult was approved in 1918.
 | • Lisbona (Portogallo), Chiesa del TOC: Presunto ritratto |
 | • Lisbona (Portogallo), Chiesa del TOC: Presunto ritratto |
 | • Lisbona (Portogallo), Chiesa del TOC: Presunto ritratto |
 | • Incisione (sec. XVIII ?): B. Nuno con quadro della Madonna del Carmine |
 | • Lisbona (Portogallo), Chiesa del TOC: Altare del B. Nuno con statua a grandezza naturale |
 | • Sameiro (Portogallo), Comunità carmelitana: Statua devozionale |
 | • Genova (Italia), Chiesa di S. Agnese e di N. S. del Carmine: Domenico Cresti, detto il Pasignano, Vestizione del B. Nuno. |
 | • Roma (Italia), Centro Int. Sant’Alberto: Vestizione del B. Nuno |
 | • Roma (Italia), Centro Int. Sant’Alberto |
 | • Fatima (Portogallo), Casa Beato Nuno: Altorilievo |
 | • Lisbona (Portogallo), Parrocchia “Santo Condestavel”: Mosaico dell’abside |
 | • Lisbona (?) (Portogallo): Facciata con statua del Beato Nuno |
 | • Lisbona (?) (Portogallo): Facciata con statua del Beato Nuno |
 | • Lisbona (Portogallo): Tomba del Beato Nuno |
 | • Immaginetta devozionale |
 | • Fatima (Portogallo), Casa Beato Nuno: Riproduzione della spada del B. Nuno |
 | • Batalha (Portogallo): Monumento equestre del B. Nuno come Gran Connestabile |
 | • Batalha (Portogallo): Monumento equestre del B. Nuno come Gran Connestabile |
 | • Straubing, Germania: Convento carmelitano |
 | • The Friars, Aylesford, Kent: Ceramica del B. Nuno (Adam Kossowski) |
 | • Chiesa carmelitana, Dublino, Irlanda: Vetrata del B. Nuno |
Memorials in honor of Fr. John Knoernschild may be made to the Society of the Little Flower, 1313 Frontage Road, Darien, IL, 60561, or the Carmelite Mission Office, 8501 Bailey Road, Darien, IL, 60561. Holy Cross Mortuary 310-836-5500
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Forty-one Carmelite educators from the four O.Carm. schools in the Philippines (Mount Carmel College of Escalante, Negros Occidental; Mount Carmel College of San Francisco, Mount Carmel High School of Rosario and Father Urios High School of Prosperidad) gathered on November 17-20, 2010 for their triennial colloquium at Mount Carmel College in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur in southern Philippines. In a spirit of fellowship and communion the delegates celebrated together as they discerned and listened to the different presentations of the resource speakers and co-delegates. Fr. Artemio Jusayan, the Commissary General who also serves as the Chair of the National Board of Trustees of the Carmelite School System in the Philippines exhorted the educators in their vocation and role as Carmelite educators. Other resource persons were Frs. Gabriel Dolotina, Alaindelon Balasabas and Christian Buenafe who also shared their experiences, insights and learning from the First International Congress of Carmelite schools in Dublin last April. The lay-consultants Noel Valencia and Lisa Clamor also presented to the school heads and principle stakeholders the results of the 10-year summing-up of the O.Carm. school ministry in the country for its validation and further enrichment. The delegates also met the students during their school visit and strengthened the bond among the Carmelites educators and students.
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