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Updated: June 28, 2025
Marcos Pires died in 1524 and was succeeded by Diogo de Castilho, and in a letter dated from Evora in that year the king orders a hundred gold cruzados to be paid to Diogo and to Master Nicolas for the statues on the west door which were still wanting, and two years later in September another letter granted Diogo the privilege of riding on a mule.
Two of these books were finished and paid for in February 1535, when he received 63$795 or about £15. The books were bound at Evora for 4$000 or sixteen shillings.
Between the Mondego and the Tagus there are only four or five churches which can be called romanesque, and south of the Tagus only the cathedral of Evora, begun about 1186 and consecrated some eighteen years later, is romanesque, constructively at least, though all its arches have become pointed.
Yet a good deal has survived, either because it was hidden away as at Guimarães or at Coimbra where it is said to have been only found lately or because, as at Evora, it lay apart from the course of this famous plunderer. The richest treasuries at the present day are those of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira at Guimarães, and of the Sés at Braga, at Coimbra, and at Evora.
Hesitating before such signs of distress, Samoval looked at O'Moy, to meet a dejected scowl. Lady O'Moy turned to her husband. "What is it?" she demanded. "You know something about Dick and you are keeping it from me. Dick is in trouble?" "He is," O'Moy admitted. "In great trouble." "What has he done? You spoke of an affair at Evora or Tavora, which is not to be mentioned before ladies.
Not much need be said of the Jesuit University founded at Evora by the Cardinal in 1559 and suppressed by the Marques de Pombal. Now partly a school and partly an orphanage, the great hall for conferring degrees is in ruins, but the courtyard with its two ranges of galleries still stands.
Another at Guimarães given by Fernando Alvares is less well proportioned and less beautiful. So far the architectural details of the chalices mentioned have been entirely national, but there is a custodia at Evora, whose interlacing canopy work seems to betray the influence of the Netherlands.
Not very far from Evora in Portalegre, where a bishop's see was founded by Dom João III. in 1549, there is a very fine monument of this kind to a bishop of the Mello family in the seminary, and also a doorway, while at Tavira in the Algarve the Misericordia has an interesting door, not unlike that at Evora, but more richly ornamented by having a sculptured frieze and a band of bold acanthus leaves joining the two capitals above the arch.
Only at Evora, where he so long filled the position of archbishop before succeeding to the throne, was the cardinal able to do much.
Monte Moro is the head of a range of hills which cross this part of the Alemtejo, and from hence they fork east and south-east, towards the former of which directions lies the direct road to Elvas, Badajos, and Madrid; and towards the latter that to Evora. A beautiful mountain, covered to the top with cork trees, is the third of the chain which skirts the way in the direction of Elvas.
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