Jardim (Dr Manuel Gomes)
Original title: Jardim (Dr. Manuel Gomes)
Manuel Gomes Jardim (b. 1881), Madeiran priest, canon of Funchal Cathedral, seminary professor and author of sermons and anti-Protestant polemics.
He was born in the parish (freguesia) of Porto Moniz (‘Moniz’s harbour’) on 9 January 1881. After completing his studies at the Diocesan Seminary, he attended the Gregorian University in Rome and was ordained priest in 1904. In 1921 he was appointed canon of Funchal Cathedral (the Sé) (Sé do Funchal). For some years he has been a professor at the seminary of this diocese. He has contributed to various newspapers and is at present (1921) the editor of Vida Diocesana (‘Diocesan Life’). Of his sacred orations, some have been published as pamphlets – Sermão ao Santíssimo Sacramento, Funchal, 1912, and Oração Fúnebre nas exéquias do S. Pontífice Pio X, Lisbon, 1915 – and others in a volume, A Aurora da Redenção. He is the author of the notable works of religious polemic As Razões do Protestantismo, A Existencia de Deus á luz da sciencia e da razão and A Igreja e o Protestantismo. In defence of the return of the building of the Seminary of the Incarnation (Seminário da Encarnação) to the Diocesan Worship Commission of Funchal, he wrote the pamphlet A Legalidade do Decreto n.° 13.514.
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- Funchal Cathedral (the Sé)
Funchal. Cathedral of which he became canon.
The Sé do Funchal is the cathedral of Funchal, in the parish of Sé. It was begun in 1493, became a parish seat in 1508 and a cathedral in 1514. It was the starting point of processions and the place of the vow to São Tiago, and bishops are buried there.
- Porto Moniz
His birthplace.
North-western parish and municipality with a quay and a tolerable port that serves as a good landing when southerly winds close the south coast. It has one of the oldest Magdalene chapels in northern Madeira, whose feast falls on 22 July. It was the birthplace of Dr Manuel Gomes Jardim.
- Rome
Italy. Where he studied at the Gregorian University.
Rome, seat of the Holy See, appears in the Elucidário chiefly through Madeirans and others connected with it. Padre Manuel Constantino taught, published and died there, and Dr Patrício Moniz took a doctorate in theology and was ordained there. Padre Luiz Gonçalves da Câmara was superior of the Jesuit professed house there, and Simão Gonçalves da Câmara's gift was presented to the pope there; other entries record an embassy post, the Vatican Council and beatification processes.
- Seminary of the Incarnation
Funchal. Seminary building whose return to the Church he defended.
The Seminário da Encarnação is a seminary building in Funchal. The minor seminary, formerly housed at the Convento de São Bernardino, was merged into it. The building later housed the Escola de Utilidades e Belas Artes and then the offices of the Junta Geral, and Dr. Manuel Gomes Jardim argued for its return to the Church.
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People mentioned · 02- Manuel Gomes Jardimb. 1881
Priest from Porto Moniz, canon of Funchal Cathedral from 1921, seminary professor and director of Vida Diocesana.
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Pope for whose funeral rites Jardim delivered a published oration.