Pontes (Father Armando Augusto de)
Original title: Pontes (Padre Armando Augusto de)
Madeiran priest (1836–1897), long-serving parish priest of Machico, journalist and author of several pamphlets.
He was born in Funchal on 18 May 1836 and died in the parish (freguesia) of Machico on 3 November 1897. He studied at the lyceum (state secondary school) and the seminary of this city, and was ordained priest on 16 September 1860. He held ecclesiastical posts in various parishes of this diocese, especially in the parish of Machico, where he was parish priest for many years. He was a highly intelligent man of wide learning, and also an exemplary priest of impeccably austere character.
He contributed extensively to several periodicals, notably the former Jornal Verdade. He published the pamphlets O Domingo, a Fé, Funchal, 1895, 55 pp.; Excursões na Madeira, Funchal, 1891, 106 pp.; and Um monumento Histórico, Funchal, 1886, 27 pp.
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Father Armando Augusto de Pontes was born in Funchal.
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Armando Augusto de Pontes was ordained priest.
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Padre Armando Augusto de Pontes published Um monumento Histórico.
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Father Armando Augusto de Pontes published 'Excursões na Madeira'.
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Padre Armando Augusto de Pontes published O Domingo, a Fé.
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Padre Armando Augusto de Pontes died in Machico.
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- Funchal
His birthplace and where he studied.
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.
- Machico
Parish where he served as priest and died.
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.
People
People mentioned · 01- Armando Augusto de Pontes1836–1897
Funchal-born priest who served for many years as parish priest of Machico and wrote for the Jornal Verdade and published pamphlets.