Casa do Padrão · Portugal

The Certificate

One sheet, with your name, its own number, and the plot it names. This is what arrives.

CARTA DE HONRA
POR MARES NUNCA DANTES NAVEGADOS CASA DO PADRÃO
Saibam quantos esta carta virem  ·  Be it known to all who read this letter
Dom Francisco de Portugal
PORTUGUÊS
O portador é recebido, com honra plena e duradoura, na guarda honorífica da Casa do Padrão, e é lhe concedida a afetuosa tutela de uma parcela de terra em Cascais: guardar o seu nome antigo, e a memória daqueles que partiram por mares nunca dantes navegados e a ela tornaram.
ENGLISH
The bearer is received, with full and lasting honor, into the honorific guardianship of the Casa do Padrão, and is granted the affectionate stewardship of a land parcel at Cascais: to keep its ancient name, and the memory of those who set out through seas no one had sailed before, and came home to it.
Esta é a ditosa Pátria minha amada  ·  This is my beloved and fortunate homeland
Vasco da Gama
Por Portugal  ·  O Guardião
N.º CP-001860  ·  EMITIDO EM 29 OUTUBRO 2026
Cascais, Portugal · Uma dedicatória honorífica de recordação.
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“Esta é a ditosa Pátria minha amada.”

This is my beloved and fortunate homeland.

Luís de Camões · Os Lusíadas, 1572

What is on it

The armillary sphere

The seal at the top is the esfera armilar, the device of King Manuel I and still on the flag of Portugal. The ring around it reads "Por mares nunca dantes navegados" and, below, Casa do Padrão.

Portuguese and English

The text is set in both languages, side by side, saying the same thing twice: that the bearer is received into the honorific guardianship of the Casa do Padrão, and given the keeping of a land parcel in Portugal.

Uniquely numbered

Each one has its own number, written N.º CP followed by six digits. No two certificates share a number.

The old summons

It opens on the charter formula, "Saibam quantos esta carta virem", be it known to all who read this letter, under the heading Carta de Honra.

The signature

It is signed Casa do Padrão, and under that "Por Portugal · O Guardião", with the place named at the foot.

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