Holy Souls (chapels)
Original title: Almas (Capelas das)
Lists several chapels in Madeira dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory, in Ribeira Brava, Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, Calheta and Ponta do Sol, several of them now lost or demolished.
In the parish (freguesia) of Ribeira Brava (‘wild river’), at a locality (sítio) that is now unknown, the cooper António Rodrigues Jardim founded a small chapel dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory in 1652.
At the locality of Vargem (‘meadow’) in the parish of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos (‘the narrows of Câmara de Lobos’) there is a chantry (capela) of the same dedication, whose founder and year of construction are unknown.
There is a chantry of the Souls in the parish of Calheta (‘small cove’), but nothing else is known about it.
Around 1710 the people built a small chantry of the Souls in the churchyard of the parish church of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos; it has since been demolished.
A chantry of the same dedication was also built next to the parish church of Ponta do Sol (‘point of the sun’). Around 1925 the Municipal Council (Câmara Municipal) had it demolished to widen Rua Dr. João Augusto Teixeira.
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Câmara de Lobos
Chapels in Madeira dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory, located in Ribeira Brava, Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, Calheta and Ponta do Sol. Several of them have been lost or demolished.
- Calheta
Parish with a chapel of the Souls about which nothing else is known.
Calheta is a town, parish and municipality on Madeira's south-west coast and one of the island's oldest settlements. The Elucidário covers its name, early settlers such as Pedro Berenguer, its church and many chapels, including one of a former Franciscan convent, and the 1834 riot.
- Estreito de Câmara de Lobos
Câmara de Lobos. Parish with two chapels of the Souls, one in its churchyard built around 1710 and later demolished.
Estreito de Câmara de Lobos is a parish in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos, Madeira, created in the early sixteenth century around the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Graça. It was the main centre of rye-straw hat weaving and cheese-making, grows Sercial, Verdelho, Tinta and Bastardo, and became a julgado of the Funchal comarca in 1927.
- Ponta do Sol
Parish whose chapel of the Souls beside the parish church was demolished around 1925.
South-coast parish and municipality, settled from about 1440 by Rodrigo Enes 'o Coxo'. Its parish church of Nossa Senhora da Luz holds a triptych. The Elucidário also records its quay of 1848, paid for by the council, and the royal visit of 1858.
- Ribeira Brava
Parish where a hermitage to the Souls was founded in 1652, at a site now unknown.
Ribeira Brava is one of Madeira's oldest parishes, named after its violent stream, with a town, port and quay. The Elucidário covers its collegiate church and its paintings, its Franciscan convent and chapels, and its São Pedro festival with a boat and sword dance. It also records riots against the metric system and deaths when troops fired on the people during the 1884 election.
- Rua Dr. João Augusto Teixeira
Ponta do Sol. Street widened around 1925, requiring demolition of the chapel of the Souls.
Street widened around 1925, requiring demolition of the chapel of the Souls.
- Vargem
Câmara de Lobos. Locality with a chapel of the Souls of unknown founder and date.
Locality with a chapel of the Souls of unknown founder and date.
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Cooper who in 1652 founded a small hermitage to the Souls in Purgatory in Ribeira Brava parish.
- João Augusto Teixeira1845–1907
Person after whom the street in Ponta do Sol widened around 1925 was named.