Marquis of Pombal Mission
Original title: Missão Marquês de Pombal
A Funchal branch, founded in 1913, of the Lisbon association «O Vintém das Escolas», promoting liberal and civic education and maintaining a school in the Rua de Santa Maria.
It was founded on 21 March 1913, and its aims are the same as those of the association ‘O Vintém das Escolas’, to which it is subordinate and which was established in Lisbon in 1901 on the initiative of the late José de Moura Barata Feio Terenas.
The statutes of ‘O Vintém das Escolas’ show that this institution is devoted to promoting liberal and civic education. Its stated aims are to spread instruction among the children of the common people, to promote the moral and intellectual development and progress of the working classes, to help and relieve children of proven poverty, to promote the federation of independent schools and to establish prizes for teachers and pupils who prove worthy of them. The same institution’s programme also includes founding labour exchanges, schools and popular libraries, and holding lectures and literary and scientific talks.
The Marquis of Pombal Mission (Missão Marquês de Pombal) maintains a school in Funchal, in the Rua de Santa Maria. Its attendance today (1921) is 40 pupils, although at first it had an attendance of 105 pupils of both sexes. Its income comes from members’ subscriptions and from balls, charity fairs, etc., held from time to time.
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- Funchal
City where the mission maintains its school.
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.
- Lisbon
Portugal. City where «O Vintém das Escolas» was founded in 1901.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
- Rua de Santa Maria
Funchal. Street where the mission's school was located.
Rua de Santa Maria is an old street in the parish of Santa Maria Maior, Funchal, which already had noble houses in 1508; it opens onto the Largo do Poço, runs parallel to Rua Nova de Santa Maria and marks the site of the church of Nossa Senhora do Calhau. It had a passo where the Procissão dos Passos paused and was flooded in 1803 and 1856. It housed Marítimo's headquarters, the first premises of the Clube Washington, the Missão Marquês de Pombal's school, and the Escola Industrial António Augusto de Aguiar when it opened in 1889.
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Late founder of the Lisbon association «O Vintém das Escolas» (1901), parent body of this mission.