0 ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE EIGHTH CENTENARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PORTUGAL TO THE VENERABLE BROTHER, THE PATRIARCH OF LISBON, THE ARCHBISHOPS, BISHIOPS AND OTHER ORDINARIES OF PORTUGAL AND ITS OVERSEAS POSSESSIONS, IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE To Our Beloved Son, Venerable Brothers, Greetings and Apostolic Benediction. You, Our Beloved Son, and Venerable Brothers and your very noble nation, this year will celebrate a most happy event, the eighth centenary of the independence of Portugal; it is the third since its restoration to freedom. We cannot pass this over in forgetfulness and silence.
Source: Saeculo Exeunte Octavo (Vatican.va)