Andrade (Canon Dr João Jacinto Gonçalves de)
Original title: Andrade (Cónego Dr. João Jacinto Gonçalves de)
Biography of João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade (1825–1898), a priest born in Campanário who emigrated to Brazil, took a doctorate in law at São Paulo and taught there as a professor until 1891.
He was born in the parish (freguesia) of Campanário (‘bell tower’) on 10 February 1825, the son of Lieutenant Francisco Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade and Dona Caetana Maria de Macedo. He attended the Funchal seminary and was ordained priest. Shortly afterwards he sailed for Brazil, where his uncle Dom Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was a bishop and where his brother, Councillor (conselheiro, honorary title of the royal council) Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade, was a distinguished professor at the University of São Paulo. He settled in Vassouras and was carrying out his ministry there when, on the advice of Dr Francisco Justino, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo and took his doctorate there. Shortly afterwards he sat a competitive examination for one of its chairs and was appointed professor, a post he held until 1891, when he retired.
He was a man of broad learning and taught at the university with distinction, although he could not match the high intellectual gifts and profound knowledge, above all in the legal sciences, of his brother Dr Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade, whom we have already discussed on p. 68 of this Elucidario. Dr João Jacinto de Andrade never gave up his ecclesiastical duties, to which he always devoted himself with deep love. He was an exemplary priest and as such enjoyed remarkable prestige in the city of São Paulo, where he lived for many years and where he died on 16 January 1898.
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Abroad
- Brazil
Country to which he emigrated after ordination.
Brazil is recorded in the Elucidário as a chief destination of Madeiran emigrants, including several clergy and writers. It was also a market for Madeira wine and brandy and a maker of wickerwork from Madeiran osiers. It was linked to Madeira by the 1874 telegraph cable and is the native country of the araçá.
- Campanário
Ribeira Brava. Birthplace of João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade.
Campanário is a parish in Madeira, formerly part of Câmara de Lobos and later joined to the municipality of Ribeira Brava, drained by the Ribeira do Campanário (or da Lapa). The Elucidário records its landing, its band, its capitania-mor, its tithes paid to the Jesuits, a former chapel of St John founded in 1728, and the vicar sentenced by the Alçada of 1823. It was also the birthplace of Bishop D. Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade and the jurist Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade.
- Funchal
Site of the seminary where he studied.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- São Paulo
Brazil. City where he studied, taught law and died.
A Brazilian city and diocese where the Madeiran Andrade brothers studied and taught law, and where D. Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was bishop. D. Mateus de Abreu Pereira was also its bishop and died there.
- Vassouras
Brazil. Brazilian town where he first exercised his ministry.
Brazilian town where he first exercised his ministry.
People
People mentioned · 05- João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade1825–1898
Madeiran priest and professor of law at the University of São Paulo, subject of this entry.
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Mother of João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade.
- Francisco de Andrade1806–1881
Lieutenant and father of João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade.
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Brother of João Jacinto and eminent law professor at São Paulo, who persuaded him to study law.
- Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade1767–1847
Bishop in Brazil and uncle of João Jacinto, who joined him there after ordination.