Chapel of Christ Carrying the Cross
Original title: Passos
Describes the Stations of the Passion oratories that stood in Funchal streets and at which the Procession of the Passos halted.
The Stations of the Passion (passos, wayside oratories depicting scenes of Christ's Passion) were oratories found at various points in the city, in which some of the torments of the Redeemer were represented. The stations that existed in Funchal in our own day stood in the following places: the north side of the Jardim Pequeno (today Avenida do Dr. Manuel de Arriaga), Rua do Aljube (today Rua do Capitão-Tenente Carvalho de Araújo), Largo do Pelourinho and Rua de Santa Maria.
The Passos procession (Lenten procession of Christ carrying the Cross) made a halt beside each of these Stations of the Passion of Christ (1921).
We have read somewhere that the governor Dom José Manuel da Câmara had a station of Jesus Christ built in the alley of Jacinto Acciaioly.
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Places mentioned · 06- Chapel of Christ Carrying the Cross · Subject
Funchal
The Passos were oratories of the Stations of the Passion that stood in the streets of Funchal. The Procession of the Passos halted at each of them.
- Avenida Manuel de Arriaga
Funchal. Location of one of the Passion oratories.
Avenida Manuel de Arriaga is a street in Funchal, formerly the Praça da Constituição, where the Clube Restauração had its house. It had one of the Passion oratories, and water and sewer pipes were laid along it.
- Beco de Jacinto Acciaioly
Funchal. Alley where a governor reportedly built an oratory.
Alley where a governor reportedly built an oratory.
- Largo do Pelourinho
Funchal. Location of one of the oratories.
Largo do Pelourinho is a Funchal square, already tree-planted in 1508, through which the Forte de São Filipe was entered. The council occupied a house there from 1838 that was damaged by the 1842 flood; it also held a passo of the Procissão dos Passos, the Talia society's premises, and was where Francisco Rodrigues Jardim was hanged in effigy.
- Rua de Santa Maria
Funchal. Location of one of the oratories.
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.
- Rua do Aljube
Funchal. Location of one of the oratories.
Rua do Aljube is a Funchal street named after the old Aljube, which it bounded. It was formerly called Rua Carvalho de Araújo and was part of the former Campo do Duque. It had a passo where the Procissão dos Passos paused, and it was the site of the town hall that held the curfew bell.
People
People mentioned · 03- Carvalho de Araújod. 1918
Naval officer after whom the former Rua do Aljube was renamed.
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Governor of Madeira said to have had a Passion oratory built in the Beco de Jacinto Acciaioly.
- Manuel de Arriaga1841–1917
Madeiran-born president of Portugal, namesake of the avenue on the former Jardim Pequeno.