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:

    “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.”
    —Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

    “Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
    —Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)