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It was the middle of the XIX century.
In Portugal, as in a Europe all in process of industrialization,
multitudes impoverished became cheap labor hands, exploited and
sacrificed by the rich and powerful. Constantly, the number of the
socially challenged increased, victims of sickness and epidemics,
alcohol, illiteracy, moral degradation… The merciful and providential
glance of God sees the Portuguese people’s misery, and His spirit
deposits seeds of the Evangel in chosen and consecrated hearts:
Raimundo Maria Ferreira da
Silva Beirão and
Maria Clara do Menino Jesus
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