Maria de Lourdes Martins [SEP] date of death
Maria de Lourdes Martins
Maria de Lourdes Martins (26 May 1926 – 31 August 2009) was a Portuguese pianist and composer.
Life.
Maria de Lourdes Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of Lisbon Conservatory teacher Maria Helena Martins. Martins studied at the Lisbon Conservatory with Abreu Mota, Macário Santiago Kastner and Marcos Garin. She continued her studies in composition with and Jorge Croner de Vasconcellos.
After completing her studies, Martins took a position teaching at the Lisbon Conservatory. She introduced the Orff
Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz
Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz is an East Timorese Roman Catholic woman dedicated to the service of the poor.
Biography.
She was born in Liquica, East Timor in 1962. After an education interrupted by the independence struggle, she joined the Canossian Daughters of Charity as a novice. In 1985 she went to Indonesia to study Theology at the Jesuit Institute in Yogjakarta. In 1989 she returned home to start a lay order the Brothers and Sisters in Christ. She built a training institute for