Santa Maria Maior

There are parishes that have the name Santa Maria Maior (first part, Portuguese meaning Saint Mary:

Read more about Santa Maria Maior:  In Portugal, Europe, In The Madeira Islands, Africa

Famous quotes containing the words santa and/or maria:

    “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
    —Shirley Temple Black (b. 1928)

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    That child become a willow tree,
    His brother trees among.
    He’d be four times as tall as me,
    And live three times as long.”
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