In 1933, one year after his inauguration as prime minister of Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar managedto get a new constitution accepted, reorganising Portuguese politics, civil society, and economics on a corporatistbasis. This article deals with the remarkable amount of interest that Salazar’s Estado Novo aroused in the circles ofChristian political parties in the Netherlands in the late 1930s and early 1940s. My argument is that this interest hadto do with the existing institutional compartmentalisation of Dutch society along politico-religious lines, known as‘verzuiling’ or ‘pillarisation’. Some Catholic intellectuals felt that the Dutch Catholic community should not contentitself with its own ‘zuil’ or ‘pillar’, but rather aspire after a reconfiguration of society in accordance with Catholicsocial teaching, of which the Estado Novo was an example. In Protestant circles, some considered the Estado Novoto be a paragon of an ‘organically’ organised state, thereby offering an alternative to the ‘pillarised’ segregationof the Dutch nation that they utterly detested. In addition, both Dutch Catholic and Protestant admirers of Salazarthought that the Estado Novo was based on principles that could offer both a solution to the political and economiccrisis affecting the Netherlands in the 1930s and a fundament on which to reconstruct their country after theNazi-German invasion in 1940. ; Em 1933, um ano após a sua tomada de posse como Presidente do Conselho de Portugal, António deOliveira Salazar conseguiu ver aprovada uma nova Constituição, reorganizando a política, a sociedade civil e a economiaportuguesas numa base corporativista. Este artigo aborda o interesse notável que o Estado Novo salazaristadespertou nos círculos dos partidos políticos cristãos nos Países Baixos (Holanda) por volta de 1940. Procura-seargumentar que tal interesse teve a ver com a então segmentação institucional da sociedade holandesa, na basede diferenças políticas e religiosas, conhecida na historiografia como ‘verzuiling’ ou ...