Peregrinações Madeirenses
Two organised pilgrimages from Madeira to European shrines, monuments and museums in 1923 and 1926, each later described in print.
Under the name ‘Peregrinações Madeirenses’ (Madeiran Pilgrimages), two excursions took place in 1923 and 1926 in which several hundred people from this archipelago took part, visiting the most celebrated shrines, monuments and museums in various countries of Europe. Father Jacinto da C. Nunes published an interesting description of the first in a score of articles in the review A Esperança (‘Hope’) in 1924 and 1925. Of the second, the well-known writer João dos Reis Gomes published a detailed account entitled Através da França, Suíça e Itália, an exquisite and instructive travel book.
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- France
Visited on the 1926 pilgrimage.
France is a country where several Madeirans fought and died in the First World War, including Gabriel Rocha de Gouveia and João Paulo da Veiga Pestana. It was also a place of study, of exile and of refuge for Madeirans. It was the origin of the expedition behind the Saque dos Franceses and the intended destination of the fugitives in the Machim legend.
- Italy
Visited on the 1926 pilgrimage.
Italy is referred to in several contexts. It was the place of exile of Bishop D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade in 1834, and it was visited on the 1926 Madeiran pilgrimage. An Italian sanctuary was reputedly the model for the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Graça.
- Switzerland
Visited on the 1926 pilgrimage.
A European country where Dr Krohn died in a sanatorium and Rui de Bianchi also died. It was the homeland of Padre Alphonse Luisier, the place of Dr José de Almada's secondary studies and where the ex-Empress Zita's children were educated; it was visited on the 1926 pilgrimage.
People
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Priest who described the 1923 pilgrimage in some twenty articles in A Esperança.
- João dos Reis Gomesb. 1869
Writer who recounted the 1926 pilgrimage in 'Através da França, Suíça e Itália'.