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Returning to Vila Real, from Cumieira, where Father Maximino de Sousa taught, on the night of April 2, 1976, the car they were traveling in was the target of a bomb.
“We were all taken by surprise by the attack he was subjected to”, says Vítor Pires, who is from Porto. “I was here at the funeral. There was a huge mass demonstration on the street, Vila Real came to a standstill,” he recalls. In the funeral procession, which he says lasted more than two hours, due to the crowd of people who gathered, he even carried the urn.
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