Lisbon Catholic Saints Tour: on Faith and Miracles - Private Tour

The Route of the Saints is an itinerary of beliefs, passions and visions that crosses the historic neighborhoods of Alfama, Mouraria and Graça, winding between staggering events, blissful miracles and prodigious legends. The first patron saint of Lisbon named by the Church was Saint Crispim, a shoemaker martyred in Soissons. Lisbon had never heard of him and instead favored Vicente de Zaragoza, a deacon who supposedly sailed to the south of Portugal more than four hundred years after being martyred. Saint Vincent ended up, however, overshadowed by Saint Anthony, the miracle preacher who died and was sanctified in Padova, but who was born and grew up in Lisbon - where he supposedly returned after falling asleep, in a spectacular miracle of bilocation. Even today there are few residents who know who is the official patron of Lisbon, but the mysticism of the saints continues to hover over the culture and popular imagination of this city at once so blissful and so unholy.