Anes (Gonçalo)
Gonçalo Anes de Velosa, early settler of Madeira, founded the church of São Bartolomeu in Funchal with a hospice where the Jesuits first lodged in 1570; he died in 1497.
Gonçalo Anes, or Gonçalo Anes de Velosa, was one of the first settlers of this island. He was born in Celorico and had been a squire of Infante Ferdinand, son of King Duarte. He founded the church of São Bartolomeu, beside which he established a hospice (hospício) for poor clergy, which, it seems, never actually functioned. It served to lodge missionaries who called at Madeira on their way to India and Brazil. It was in this house and church that the Jesuits settled when they came to Madeira in 1570, and they remained there until the College of São João Evangelista (St John the Evangelist) (Colégio de São João Evangelista) was built. Gonçalo Anes founded an entail with the obligation of having a Mass celebrated in the said church every Friday for the soul of Infante Ferdinand. Gonçalo Anes died in 1497 and was buried in the church he had founded.
The chapel of São Bartolomeu (St Bartholomew) stood on the left bank of the Ribeira de Santa Luzia (‘St Lucy’s stream’), in the Rua Direita (‘straight street’), which in former times extended as far as the present-day Ponte do Torreão (‘turret bridge’).
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- Celorico
Portugal. Birthplace of Gonçalo Anes.
Celorico is a place on the Portuguese mainland. It was the birthplace of Gonçalo Anes, founder of the church of São Bartolomeu, and of the Velosa brothers.
- Chapel of St Bartholomew
Funchal. Church founded by Gonçalo Anes, where the Jesuits first lodged and he was buried.
The Capela de São Bartolomeu is a church in Funchal founded by Gonçalo Anes (also given as Gonçalo Aires), who was buried there. It had a hostel for poor clergy, and the Jesuits first lodged there.
- College of St John the Evangelist
Funchal. Jesuit college to which the Jesuits moved from São Bartolomeu.
The Colégio de São João Evangelista was the Jesuit college and church in Funchal, to which the Jesuits moved from São Bartolomeu. It held the first public secondary classes and later housed the diocesan seminary and the lyceum; the first cholera cases appeared among soldiers quartered there, and it marked where canopy bearers changed in the Corpus Christi procession.
- Ponte do Torreão
Funchal. Bridge marking the former extent of Rua Direita.
The Ponte do Torreão is a bridge in Funchal that replaced an earlier wooden bridge and gives the Torreão entry its name. Rua dos Ferreiros ends at it, and it is repeatedly used as the reference point for the former extent of Rua Direita.
- Ribeira de Santa Luzia
Funchal. The chapel stood on its left bank.
The Ribeira de Santa Luzia is one of the three streams crossing Funchal, named after a chapel of Santa Luzia on its left bank. Its banks were probably the first land irrigated by levadas and had four sugar mills in the late 17th century. It feeds the Santa Luzia, Moinhos and D. Isabel levadas, and the Jesuits' Fundoa residence stood on its right bank.
- Rua Direita
Funchal. Street on which the chapel stood.
An early Funchal street existing in 1508, on which the church of São Bartolomeu, an old customs house and the seminary's first house stood. D. Jerónimo Barreto lived there and Zenobio Acciaioly had a sugar mill there. It was hit by a shell in the 1916 bombardment.
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People mentioned · 03- Gonçalo Anes de Velosad. 1497
Early settler of Madeira from Celorico who founded the church of São Bartolomeu and was buried there in 1497.
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Son of King Duarte, whom Gonçalo Anes served as squire and for whose soul he endowed weekly Masses.
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King of Portugal, father of Infante Fernando.