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RARE “Patriarch of the East Indies\" José da Costa Nunes Hand Signed 5.5X3 Card:
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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Patriarch of the East Indies" José da Costa Nunes Signed 5.5X3 Card. 

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Dom José

da Costa Nunes (Chinese: 高若瑟,

15 March 1880 – 29 November 1976) was a Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who

served as Bishop of Macau from 1920 to 1940 and Patriarch of the East Indies from 1940 to 1953. He was

made a cardinal in 1962. José da Costa Nunes was born in Candelária, Azores, to José da Costa Nunes and his wife Francisca

Felizarda de Castro Nunes. He was baptized four days later, on 19 March 1880. After

studying at the seminary in Angra, Nunes went to Macau as a missionary on 4 June 1903, and was ordained to the priesthood on

the following 26 July. He then did pastoral work and

taught at Macau's seminary until 1906. Nunes was named Vicar general of Macau and Timor from 1906 to 1913, when he began missionary work in

Timor. He became Vicar capitular of

Macau on 21 February 1917. On 16 December 1920, Nunes was appointed Bishop of Macau by Pope Benedict XV. He received his episcopal consecration on

20 November 1921, from Bishop Emanuel da Costa, with Bishops Manuel Augusto

Xavier and Francisco Nunes da Rocha serving as co-consecrators. Nunes was advanced to the Archdiocese

of Goa e Damão, with title of Patriarch of the East

Indies, on 11 December 1940. Resigning as Archbishop on 16 December

1953, he was made Titular Archbishop of Odessus and Vice-Camerlengo

of the Holy Roman Church that same day, whilst retaining the

personal title of "Patriarch". Pope John XXIII created him Cardinal Priest of Santa Prisca in the consistory of 19 March 1962. Nunes attended the Second Vatican Council from

1962 to 1965 and he was one of the cardinal

electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that

selected Pope Paul VI. He served as

the papal legate to the fourth centennial celebration of the

arrival of the first Catholic missionaries to Macau on 10 November 1965. He

died in Rome at the age of 96. He was buried in the Campo Verano, but his remains, in accordance with his will,

were later transferred to the church of Sant'Antonio dei

Portoghesi. In his will, Nunes had also expressed his desire to be

buried in the cemetery of Horta, next to his parents, if he died in Portugal.

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