Nuno Álvares Pereira: Portugal’s Holy Hammer
Badass of the Week - A podcast by High Five Content - Wednesdays
He was the undefeated general who saved Portugal from foreign conquest, crushed armies five times his size, and changed the course of European warfare—then gave it all up to become a barefoot monk. This week Ben and Pat tell the story of Nuno Álvares Pereira: battlefield genius, national hero, and the only medieval warlord to end up canonized as a Catholic saint.
