Officers and crews from 40 ships spent an hour at night in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament at a church on the banks of the River Tagus. on the eve of the departure of the cod-fishers for Newfoundland and Greenland.
Some 6.500 fishermen were present when, on the morning of departure Archbishop Salgueiro blessed their ships from the door of the Church of St. Jeroninios.
