Our Lady of the Rosary (chapels)
Original title: Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Capelas de)
Lists chapels dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in several Madeiran parishes, with their founders and dates of foundation.
In the parish (freguesia) of Campanário (‘bell tower’) a chapel of this dedication was founded in 1748 by the holder of the entail (morgado) António Leandro da Câmara Leme. The deed of endowment is dated 18 July 1734, but the chapel was inspected only fourteen years later, so that acts of worship could be celebrated in it.
On the right bank of the Ribeira de Santa Luzia (‘St Lucy’), at the place called Fundoa, within the parish of São Roque (‘St Roch’), there is a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary (Nossa Senhora do Rosário), built by João da Paz de Castro in 1668. Matias de Mendonça e Vasconcelos built a chapel of the same dedication in the parish of Machico in 1660.
In the parish of Santa Cruz (‘Holy Cross’) there was a chapel whose patron saint was Our Lady of the Rosary, but we know nothing of its founder or the year it was built.
The chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary in the locality (sítio) of Vargem (‘meadow’), in the parish of São Vicente (‘St Vincent’), is not small. The original chapel, instituted by José Caldeira, has undergone various alterations and additions. The curate of the parish usually lives near this chapel and conducts religious services there.
There was a chapel of the same dedication in the parish of São Jorge (‘St George’), founded in the last quarter of the 17th century by Father Matias Jorge Jardim; it stood in the locality of Ilha (‘island’).
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Matias de Mendonça e Vasconcelos erected a Rosary chapel in Machico.
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João da Paz de Castro built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Rosário at Fundoa, São Roque.
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Padre Matias Jorge Jardim founded a Rosary chapel in São Jorge.
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The deed of endowment of the Rosary chapel at Campanário was signed.
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The Rosary chapel at Campanário was inspected and opened for worship.
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Funchal
This entry covers the chapels dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in several Madeiran parishes, including São Roque in Funchal. The Elucidário lists their founders and dates of foundation.
- Campanário
Ribeira Brava. Parish of a Rosary chapel founded in 1748.
Campanário is a parish in Madeira, formerly part of Câmara de Lobos and later joined to the municipality of Ribeira Brava, drained by the Ribeira do Campanário (or da Lapa). The Elucidário records its landing, its band, its capitania-mor, its tithes paid to the Jesuits, a former chapel of St John founded in 1728, and the vicar sentenced by the Alçada of 1823. It was also the birthplace of Bishop D. Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade and the jurist Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade.
- Fundoa
Funchal. Site of a Rosary chapel built in 1668.
Fundoa is one of the principal localities of São Roque parish, Funchal. It has a Rosary chapel built in 1668 and a former Jesuit residence. An 1817 water reservoir and aqueduct supplying Funchal, built by Dr Joaquim de Menezes e Ataíde, have their source there.
- Ilha
Santana. Site of a former Rosary chapel.
Ilha is an inhabited locality in São Jorge parish, encircled by a forking stream, and seat of an entail founded in 1559 on lands granted to Lopo Fernandes Pinto. It had a former Rosary chapel, gave Laureano da Câmara Falcão his nickname 'morgado da Ilha', and was served by a new levada branch built in 1938.
- Machico
Parish of a Rosary chapel erected in 1660.
The parish of Machico was the landing place of the discoverers Zargo and Tristão Vaz and the seat of the captaincy of Machico; the parish was founded c. 1450. The Elucidário covers its clergy and stipends, chapels, historical events, mineral springs, localities, population and notable natives.
- Ribeira de Santa Luzia
Funchal. The Fundoa chapel stands on its right bank.
The Ribeira de Santa Luzia is one of the three streams crossing Funchal, named after a chapel of Santa Luzia on its left bank. Its banks were probably the first land irrigated by levadas and had four sugar mills in the late 17th century. It feeds the Santa Luzia, Moinhos and D. Isabel levadas, and the Jesuits' Fundoa residence stood on its right bank.
- Santa Cruz
Parish where a Rosary chapel of unknown origin existed.
Santa Cruz is a parish and one of Madeira's oldest settlements, named after a cross Zarco had raised there at the discovery. The Elucidário covers its early ecclesiastical history, collegiate church, chapels, noble settlers and localities.
- São Jorge
Santana. Parish of a former Rosary chapel.
North-coast parish that was an original parish of Santana municipality and gives its name to the northern archpriest district. It is known for plant-fossil and lignite deposits studied by Heer and Bunbury, and for a 17th-century landslide. The Elucidário also describes its islet, headland, quay and stream.
- São Roque
Funchal. Parish containing the Fundoa chapel.
São Roque is a suburban parish of Funchal, separated from São Pedro and created under a royal charter of 1579; it is named after its original chapel of São Roque. The Elucidário traces the history of its parish church and lists its chapels, principal localities and population.
- São Vicente
Parish containing the Vargem chapel.
São Vicente is described as the largest and most populous parish of northern Madeira and the seat of the only town on the north coast. The Elucidário covers its settlement, church history, localities and landscape, and the deadly landslide of 1929.
- Vargem
São Vicente. Site of a sizeable Rosary chapel served by the curate.
Site of a sizeable Rosary chapel served by the curate.
People
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Holder of an entailed estate who founded the Rosary chapel at Campanário in 1748.
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Built the Rosary chapel at Fundoa, São Roque, in 1668.
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Founder of the original Rosary chapel at Vargem, São Vicente.
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Erected a Rosary chapel in Machico parish in 1660.
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Priest who founded a Rosary chapel at the sítio da Ilha, São Jorge, in the late 17th century.