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‘In the ocean, you can see the beauty of God’

Filipe d’Avillez
Aug 10, 2026
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It’s lunch time on a summer Monday, and yet another group of foreigners is putting on wetsuits at one of the many surfing schools that dot the Praia Grande beach on the coastline of Sintra, Portugal.

A lot of European groups come to ride the waves in Portugal’s surfing hotspot. But there is something different about this group.

Fr. Andrew Torrey catches …

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