Manuel Mendes

Machine-translated from the Portuguese article

Manuel Joaquim Mendes (Santa Engrácia, Lisbon, 18 January 1906 — Coração de Jesus, Lisbon, 4 May 1969) was a Portuguese writer, sculptor and politician. He was born on 18 January 1906, at 1:00 in the morning, and was baptized on 19 March of that year, in the parish of Santa Engrácia, in Lisbon. He was the son of the merchant José Joaquim Mendes, a native of Mogadouro (parish of Valverde), and of Adelaide do Nascimento Mendes, a domestic worker, a native of Lisbon (parish of Anjos).