600 Thousand Euros Have Been Secured to Refurbish This 450-Year-Old Church in Viana Do Castelo

The Viana do Castelo City Council has secured funding of 615,277 euros for conservation work on the Church of São Domingos, which was commissioned to be built and where the blessed Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires is buried, the local authority announced today. The church is part of the former convent of Santa Cruz, later called São Domingos, which, like the church, was built by Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires, declared a saint in 2019 by Pope Francis.…