Lombada do Loreto
Inhabited locality in Arco da Calheta parish, site of the early 16th-century chapel of Nossa Senhora do Loreto, a popular pilgrimage centre founded by Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, grandson of Zargo.
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An inhabited locality (sítio) in the parish (freguesia) of Arco da Calheta (‘arc of Calheta’), home to the old chapel of Our Lady of Loreto (Nossa Senhora do Loreto). It is the focus of a well-attended pilgrimage, drawing many people from several distant parishes and above all from the surrounding parishes. Although small, the chapel has a certain architectural distinction, and it is a pity that an ill-suited porch should spoil the harmony of the whole. It dates from the first years of the 16th century and was founded by Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, grandson of João Gonçalves Zarco, the first captain-donatary (capitão-donatário) of Funchal. A large manor house once adjoined it, for the founder made this the seat of the important entailed estate (morgadio) that he established. Others attribute the founding of the chapel and the entailed estate to Dona Joana de Eça, widow of the said Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, chief lady of the bedchamber to Queen Catherine and patron of the Convento da Esperança (Convent of Our Lady of Hope), Lisbon, where she was buried. The nuns of this convent owned a great deal of land in the parish of Arco da Calheta, bequeathed to them by Dona Joana de Eça. In the first quarter of the 20th century the tomb of the patron, Dona Joana de Eça, was found in the ruins of the church of the Convento da Esperança.
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Places mentioned · 05- Lombada do Loreto · Subject
Calheta. Subject of the entry.
Lombada do Loreto is an inhabited locality in the parish of Arco da Calheta. It is the site of the early 16th-century chapel of Nossa Senhora do Loreto, a popular pilgrimage centre founded by Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, grandson of Zargo.
- Arco da Calheta
Calheta. Parish containing the locality, where the Esperança nuns held much land.
Arco da Calheta is a parish in the municipality of Calheta, created in 1572 around the chapel of São Brás, whose church holds sixteenth-century paintings. The Elucidário covers its early settlers such as the Andrades, sugar estates, chapels, entails, unrest in 1834 and 1887, and irrigation by the Rabaçal and Pico da Urze levadas.
- Chapel of Our Lady of Loreto
Calheta. Early 16th-century chapel and pilgrimage centre.
The Chapel of Our Lady of Loreto, at Lombada do Loreto in Arco da Calheta, was founded by Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, son of the second captain-donatary, and was reportedly built in 1510. It later became the seat of an entailed estate and was the centre of an annual pilgrimage.
- Convent of Our Lady of Hope (Lisbon)
Portugal. Lisbon convent where Joana de Eça was patroness and buried.
The Convento da Esperança is a convent in Lisbon where Joana de Eça was patroness and was buried. Its priors administered, and its nuns later owned, the entail of the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Loreto in Madeira.
- Funchal
Captaincy of which Zargo was first donatary.
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.
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Widow of Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, chief lady of the bedchamber to Queen Catarina and patroness of the Esperança convent in Lisbon, credited by some with founding the chapel and entail.
- João Gonçalves Zarcod. 1467
First captain-donatary of Funchal, grandfather of the chapel's founder.
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Grandson of Zargo who founded the Loreto chapel in the early 16th century and made the site the seat of his entailed estate.
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Queen of Portugal whom Joana de Eça served as chief lady of the bedchamber.