Article Nº 2087 Locality (sítio) Santa Cruz Vol. II · p. 526
Livramento
Inhabited locality in the parish of Caniço, named after a former chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento whose popular pilgrimage has moved to the parish church.
An inhabited locality (sítio) in the parish (freguesia) of Caniço (‘reed’). It takes its name from a chapel that once stood there, dedicated to Our Lady of Deliverance (Nossa Senhora do Livramento), which was the centre of a well-attended pilgrimage, now transferred to the parish church. The foundation of this chapel is attributed to Sebastião de Oliveira, around the middle of the 17th century; he held land there as a sesmaria (royal land grant to settlers on condition of cultivation).
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- Sebastião de Oliveira is said to have founded the Livramento chapel in Caniço.