seems somewhat ironic that his name lives on most vividly in these circles since Pais was not a particularly religious man himself. Pais must carry some of the responsibility for subsequent dictatorships because of his autocratic style of government and the removal of any remaining checks on the regime. The ineffectuality of his regime failed to bring the order it had promised and only contributed to the chaos of the First Republic and the undermining of its legitimacy. The Estado Novo regime that controlled Portugal during much of the 20th century exploited the legacy and associations of "Sidonism" to its advantage. For instance, when the Portuguese National Pantheon was inaugurated in 1966, the authorities had Pais's body transferred to it from the Room of the Chapter of the Jeronimos Monastery, where it had been interred previously. Family and descendants Pais married Maria dos Prazeres Martins Bessa (Amarante, São Gonçalo, 1868/1869 – Porto?/Lisbon, 1945) in 1895. The couple had five children, four sons and one daughter. Out of wedlock, he also had one daughter by one Ema Manso Preto. He is the great-grandfather in the male line of pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti (1970–2012). Museum plans In 2002, Caminha's Câmara Municipal purchased the ruin of Pais' birthplace for 175,000 Euros. The architect Nuno Brandão Costa was asked in 2009 to turn the house into a museum. The basement should house a room dedicated to Pais's presidency, with a second hall devoted to his life on the ground floor. The first floor will be turned into a documentation center. The costs of the conversion are estimated to be one million Euros. Honours Sash and Grand-Cross of the Three Orders, as President of the Republic and Grand-Master of the Portuguese Honorific Orders (1917–1918) Knight of the Order of Christ, Portugal (27 January 1919) Knight of the Order of Aviz, Portugal (5 October 1933) Officer of the Order of Aviz, Portugal (4 December 1943) Notes References Bibliography Anon. Fotobiografias do Século XX, Photobiography of Sidónio Pais, Círculo de Leitores. Carles i Pomar, Angéls (2011). Juntes Militars versus Juntes de Defensa. Militarisme a Espanya i Portugal al final de la Gran Guerra. Ph.D. Thesis Pompeu Fabra University. Diego Palacios Cerezales (2004). "Verdes e Vermelhos. Portugal e a Guerra no Ano de Sidónio Pais". Análise Social, 171), pp. 469–472. Malheiro da Silva, Antonio (2006). Sidónio e Sidonismo. Vol. 1, história de uma vida. Coimbra: Imprensa da