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As for Albuquerque, he would never fully regain the use of his left arm, but he honoured the miracle of his survival. The bullet which had felled him was retrieved by a servant and sent with a sum of money to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Algarve; the bullet was laid before her image and the money paid for a lamp that ‘might burn forever’ there.
Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
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