Baleizão
Baleizão is a Portuguese ''freguesia'' ("civil parish") of the municipality of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902, in an area of 139.74 km2. The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the Olive Grove"), where Catarina Eufémia Catarina Efigénia Sabino Eufémia (; February 13, 1928May 19, 1954) was an illiterate harvester from Alentejo, Portugal, who was murdered during a worker's strike by lieutenant Carrajola of the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Monte do Olival, Ba ... was murdered in 1954. She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime. References Freguesias of Beja, Portugal {{Beja-geo-stub ...
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Catarina Eufémia
Catarina Efigénia Sabino Eufémia (; February 13, 1928May 19, 1954) was an illiterate harvester from Alentejo, Portugal, who was murdered during a worker's strike by lieutenant Carrajola of the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Monte do Olival, Baleizão, in Beja, Portugal, Beja, Alentejo. Catarina had three children, one eight months old, who was with her when she was shot. The historic tragedy of Catarina came to personify the resistance movement against the Estado Novo (Portugal), regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, Salazar. She was adopted as an Cultural icon, icon by the Partido Comunista Português, Portuguese Communist Party in Alentejo. Poets Sophia de Mello Breyner, Carlos Aboim Inglez, Eduardo Valente da Fonseca, Francisco Miguel Duarte, José Carlos Ary dos Santos, Maria Luísa Vilão Palma and António Vicente Campinas have all dedicated poems to her. António Vicente Campinas' "''Cantar Alentejano''" was put to music by Zeca Afonso on the album "''Cantigas de Maio' ...
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