Rainha Santa Isabel - Atouguia da Baleia, Portugal
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N 39° 20.363 W 009° 19.521
29S E 471962 N 4354489
Statue of Isabel of Aragon popularly known as Queen Saint Isabel or Queen Saint.
Waymark Code: WMC6FB
Location: Leiria, Portugal
Date Posted: 07/31/2011
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Isabel of Aragon (Saragoza, ca. 1270 — Estremoz, 4th July 1336), was an aragon princess, and, from 1282 to 1325, Queen of Portugal.
She passed into history with a reputation of a Saint, was beatified and then canonized. She was popularly known as Queen Saint Isabel or Queen Saint.
Osabel was the eldest daughter of King Pedro III of Aragon with Constance of Sicily. By mother, was a descendant of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, as his maternal grandfather was a Hohhenstauffen Manfred, King of Sicily, son of Frederick II.
She married D. Dinis I of Portugal from who she had 2 children, Constance and Afonso.
D. Denis died in 1325 and shortly after his death, Isabel made a pilgrminage to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia. She dit that mounted on a donkey and walk the last steps, offering many of their personal property.
She then retreated to the Convent of Santa Clara-a-Velha in Coimbra, wearing the habit of the Order of Poor Clares but not making vows (which allowed him to keep his fortune and use it for charity). Just go back to him once, shortly before his death in 1336.
The Miracle of the roses
According to the Portuguese legend, the queen left their castle in Sabugal in a winter morning to deliver bread to the poor. Surprised by the sovereign, who inquired where she was going and what she carried in his bosom, the queen would have exclaimed: It´s roses my Lord. Suspicious, D. Dinis asked: Roses in the winter?. D. Isabel then exposed the contents of the lap of her dress and there were roses, instead of bread that she had concealed.
This statue is located near São Lourenço Church in Atouguia da Baleia and is an comemoration of the 700th aniversary of the donation of Atouguia da Baleia to D. Isabel.
Monarch Ranking: King / Queen
Proper Title and Name of Monarch: Santa Isabel de Aragão, Rainha de Portugal
Country or Empire of Influence: Portugal
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