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Our chief sources for Senorina of Basto, an abbess in what is now northern Portugal, are early modern versions (BHL 7579, 7580) of a brief Vita from a thirteenth-century legendary at the monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra. A daughter of a comital family in the vicinity of Braga and a relative of St. Rudesindus (1. March), with whom she is said jointly to have operated a miracle of raising the dead, she was raised for the church in the abbey of St. John at today's Vieira do Minho that had been founded by her father that and was ruled by her aunt Bl. Godina. Having succeeded as abbess, Senorina moved her community to Basto, where she died ca. 980 and was buried in the abbey church. Miracles were reported at her tomb and a cult arose, followed by an Elevatio in that church by archbishop Pelagius of Braga (986-1003). According to the reported text of a donation by Sancho I of Portugal (1185-1212), one of those later healed at Senorina's tomb was his son, the gravely ill future king Alfonso II of Portugal.
Best,
John Dillon
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