Celeste Caeiro, known as “Celeste dos Cravos”, wants to hold a parade today on Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon. At 90 years old, she is sick and weakened. “I don’t know if her health will allow it, and for this it was necessary to find a wheelchair,” her granddaughter Carolina Fontela explained to Lusa.
April 25, 1974 became known as the Carnation Revolution and was named after Celeste Caeiro. The self-service restaurant where he worked, in the Franginhas building on Rua Braamkamp in Lisbon, celebrated its first anniversary. The owner bought red and white carnations to offer them to customers, but due to the coup d’etat, the establishment never opened its doors. He handed them over to employees “so they wouldn’t dry out.” Celeste went home, got off at the Rossio metro station and walked along Rua do Carmo. He came across the haimit “Bula” and asked one of the soldiers if they needed anything. The young man asked her for a cigarette, but Celeste did not smoke, and the tobacco shop on the corner was closed. “My grandmother offered him one of the nails, and the soldier inserted it into the barrel of his rifle. Then everyone else did the same,” said the 23-year-old granddaughter. CM.
In 1988, Celeste lost her home in a warehouse fire in Chiado. Today he lives at home with his daughter and granddaughter in Alcobaza, Leiria, where renovations are not enough to buy a hearing aid or a wheelchair.
Author: Miguel Bravo Morais This Sergio A. Vitorino
Source: CM Jornal
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