Geronimo!

San Geronimo monastery and church, Belem

San Geronimo cloisters

Incredible stone work throughout

For example...

Tile in the refectory (the parable of the big britches)

St. J himself, with pet cat

Refectory

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Arcade in the cloisters

All through Portugal the churches were featuring folk art

nativity scenes--this, at St. Geronimo--was my favorite

OK, if you are a US male of my vintage, you know that "Geronimo!" is what US Army parachuteers exclaimed as they jumped out from the plane in WWII. According to Hollywood. Possibly not this Geronimo. Little did I know, as a nine-year-old, that St. Jerome would come to have a very different meaning--the scholar, the contemplative saint--later in my life. Belem's St. Geronimo monastery and church are two of the major sites of Lisbon. Except for the windows, neither was seriously damaged in the 1755 earthquake.