Our Lady of the Good Death (chapel)
Original title: Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte (Capela de)
Chapels of Our Lady of the Good Death in Câmara de Lobos, Ribeira Brava, Calheta (1661) and Ponta do Pargo (1666).
In the parish (freguesia) of Câmara de Lobos (‘seals’ den’) there is a chapel with the dedication of Our Lady of the Good Death (Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte), which has been closed to worship for some years.
There was a chapel of the same name in the parish of Ribeira Brava (‘wild river’), founded by Francisco Fernandes and Brásia Fernandes in a year unknown to us. In the parish of Calheta (‘small cove’), in the locality of Atouguia, there was also a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Good Death, which we have found mentioned somewhere under the name of Nossa Senhora da Piedade. Of this last chapel, built in 1661 and founded by Francisco Homem de Couto, not even traces remain today, but the locality where it stood is still called Boa Morte.
In the parish of Ponta do Pargo (‘sea bream point’), Custódio Nunes da Costa founded a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Good Death in the year 1666.
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Calheta
Former chapel of Our Lady of the Good Death in Ribeira Brava parish, which gave its name to the locality of Boa Morte.
- Atouguia
Calheta. Site of the vanished 1661 chapel, still called Boa Morte.
Site of the vanished 1661 chapel, still called Boa Morte.
- Calheta
Parish of the Atouguia chapel.
Calheta is a town, parish and municipality on Madeira's south-west coast and one of the island's oldest settlements. The Elucidário covers its name, early settlers such as Pedro Berenguer, its church and many chapels, including one of a former Franciscan convent, and the 1834 riot.
- Câmara de Lobos
Parish with an existing closed chapel.
Parish west of Funchal. The Elucidário traces its name to Zarco's discovery voyage and describes its churches, chapels and collegiate chapter, early settlers, fishing community and renowned vineyards. It also records the parish's localities, boundaries, levadas and population.
- Ponta do Pargo
Calheta. Parish of the 1666 chapel.
Ponta do Pargo is a parish at Madeira's western extremity, transferred from Porto do Moniz to Calheta municipality in 1871, where a lighthouse long demanded was first lit in 1922. It is watered by the old Rabaçal levada, grows Sercial vines, gives its name to a white cattle sub-breed, and was the birthplace of Manuel da Costa Dias and João Pestana Júnior.
- Ribeira Brava
Parish of a former chapel.
Ribeira Brava is one of Madeira's oldest parishes, named after its violent stream, with a town, port and quay. The Elucidário covers its collegiate church and its paintings, its Franciscan convent and chapels, and its São Pedro festival with a boat and sword dance. It also records riots against the metric system and deaths when troops fired on the people during the 1884 election.
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Co-founder of the Ribeira Brava chapel.
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Founded the Ponta do Pargo chapel in 1666.
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Co-founder of the Ribeira Brava chapel.
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Founded the Atouguia chapel in Calheta in 1661.