Convents
Original title: Conventos
Summary entry listing the convents of the Franciscan order in Madeira: four friaries and three nunneries, most of them now gone. It also mentions the Jesuit college in Funchal, now used as a barracks.
As described in earlier entries, there were four friaries of the Seraphic or Franciscan order in Madeira: São Francisco (St Francis of Assisi) of Funchal, São Francisco of Calheta, Our Lady of Pity of Santa Cruz, and Nossa Senhora da Porciúncula (Our Lady of the Angels of the Portiuncula) of Ribeira Brava. The same order also had three convents of nuns, all in Funchal: Convent of St Clare, Our Lady of Ransom and Nossa Senhora da Encarnação (Our Lady of the Incarnation). Of these religious houses, only the church and part of the Convent of St Clare and the church of the Encarnação survive.
The Jesuits also had a religious house or college in Funchal, now used as a barracks, which still stands together with its adjoining church (see Colégio).
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Funchal
The Elucidário's entry on convents lists the Franciscan houses of Madeira: four friaries and three nunneries, most of them now gone. It also mentions the Jesuit college in Funchal, now used as a barracks.
- Convent of Our Lady of Pity
Santa Cruz. A Franciscan friary at Santa Cruz.
The Convento de Nossa Senhora da Piedade was a Franciscan friary at Santa Cruz, Madeira. It was founded by Urbano Lomelino and completed by Jorge Lomelino, who was buried there.
- Convent of Our Lady of Ransom
Funchal. A Franciscan nunnery in Funchal, no longer existing.
The Convento de Nossa Senhora das Mercês was a Franciscan nunnery in Funchal, founded by Gaspar Berenguer de Andrade and his wife, which no longer exists.
- Convent of Our Lady of the Portiuncula
Ribeira Brava. A Franciscan friary at Ribeira Brava.
Former Franciscan convent in the parish of Ribeira Brava, near the parish church. By the Elucidário's time only ruins and a façade dated 1730 remained.
- Convent of St Clare
Funchal. A Franciscan nunnery in Funchal whose church and part of the convent survive.
A convent in Funchal founded in 1492–97 by the second captain-donatary João Gonçalves da Câmara beside the church of Conceição de Cima. It is the burial place of the Câmara family and holds a 1447 document spelling the name 'Zargo'. It was granted in 1912 for a new hospital and was later chosen to house the archaeological museum.
- Convent of St Francis in Calheta
Calheta. A Franciscan friary at Calheta.
Small Franciscan friary at Calheta, built from alms around 1670 on land bought by Pedro Bettencourt de Athouguia. It was the most modest convent in Madeira and housed the collegiate chapter from 1811 to 1815. Now extinct, it was later sold by the state into private hands; the chapel of Santa Apolónia belonged to it.
- Convent of St Francis in Funchal
Funchal. One of the four Franciscan friaries in Madeira.
The Convento de São Francisco was one of the four Franciscan friaries in Madeira. It was founded in the town in 1473 after the friars' first settlement at São João, secularised in 1834 and demolished in the 1860s. Its site, once chosen for a new town hall that was never built, became the Jardim Municipal and neighbouring streets.
- Convent of the Incarnation
Funchal. A Franciscan nunnery in Funchal of which only the church survives.
A Franciscan nunnery in Funchal of which only the church survives.
- Funchal
City containing most of the convents and the Jesuit college.
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.