Alzira Costa
Alzira de Barros Mendes de Abreu e Costa was the wife of Portuguese politician Afonso Costa.Biography
Alzira de Barros Abreu was born in 1875, in Oliveira do Hospital, in Coimbra, the daughter of Albano Mendes de Abreu, a medical doctor, and his wife, Emília de Barros Coelho de Campos. She was the sister of the writer and politician José de Barros Mendes de Abreu, who was born on 20 July 1878.
She married Afonso Costa in the New Cathedral of Coimbra, on 15 September 1892. In 1916, she was one of the founders of the Portuguese Women's Crusade.
She passed away at the age of 94, in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Lisbon.
