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Filipa Nunes

Filipa Nunes

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Filipa Nunes was the seventeen-year-old paralysed niece of Fernão Nunes, whose prophecies she joined in 1533. She was one of the self-styled prophets of the Porto Santo disturbances of that year, and later married and lived in Portugal.

1Mentioned in

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2Chronology

  1. Fernão Nunes and Filipa Nunes posed as prophets on Porto Santo, gaining wide credence and inciting disorders; the corregedor's inquiry ended on 10 March 1533.

3Places mentioned

Map: Arquipélago da Madeira (14)
  1. 1Funchal
  2. 2Porto Santo
  3. 3Machico
  4. 4Câmara de Lobos
  5. 5Santa Cruz
  6. 6Ponta do Sol
  7. 7Calheta
  8. 8Funchal Cathedral (the Sé)
  9. 9Caniço
  10. 10São Vicente
  11. 11São Lourenço Palace
  12. 12Ponta Delgada
  13. 13Convent of St Clare
  14. 14Pontinha

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