Published in Society and Culture in Portugal

Keywords: Keywords: Holiness, Memory, Nuno de Santa Maria.

The Church has always celebrated the apostles and martyrs of Christ, who by their example strengthened the new religion. In this sense, holiness must be understood as a historical phenomenon, inserted in a very complex context, which gave the Christian religion its first foundations. In this text we aim to discuss some aspects related to the life and construction of a saint of medieval origin. São Nuno de Santa Maria became a saint through the canonical proclamation in April 2009.