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Launch of the book Saint Anthony Fates and Traditions in Portugal

18 May 202318h30 – 19h30

With illustrations by Pedro Ribeiro Ferreira

Free entrance

Popular traditions and casting lots for Saint Anthony are ancient practices that aroused the curiosity of Portuguese ethnographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Illustrated here by Pedro Ribeiro Ferreira, they are brought into the present day.

Because joy is part of life and, in play, many truths are told...

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