Processions of Candlemas, the Litanies and the Way of the Cross in Ponta do Sol
Original title: Procissão das Candeias, das Ladainhas e da Via Sacra, na Ponta do Sol
Describes the former processions of the Candlemas, the Litanies and the Way of the Cross held in Ponta do Sol, with their routes to local churches and chapels. The Way of the Cross processions outside the church ended around 1830.
The article referred to above records that these processions were formerly held in Ponta do Sol (‘point of the sun’).
The procession of the Litanies (Ladainhas, a Rogation procession) took place in May. According to a document of 1600, on the first day it went to the church of Our Lady of Pity (Nossa Senhora da Piedade), in Canhas; on the second, to the chapel of Espírito Santo (Holy Spirit), in Lombada (‘long ridge’); and on the third, to the chapel of São Sebastião (St Sebastian), in the town (vila).
In 1607 the Council ordered that on the first day the same procession should go to the chapel of Espírito Santo, on the second to that of Our Lady of Pity (Jangão?) and on the third to that of São Sebastião. The parishioners of Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Canhas) and of Madalena do Mar (‘Magdalene by the sea’) were excused from attending the procession, since it was held in their own parishes.
The processions of the Way of the Cross outside the church came to an end, says the author of the article mentioned, around 1830. In the days when they were held, they set out from the parish church and passed through the streets of the town, going as far as the chapel of Our Lady of Deliverance (Nossa Senhora do Livramento), in Lombo das Adegas (‘ridge of the wine cellars’), and the chapel of St Maurus (Santo Amaro), in Lombada. Crosses stood along the streets and paths these processions followed, and on the Caminho da Lombada (‘ridge road’) there is a cave called the furna do Calvário (Calvary cave), which was one of the stations of these processions.
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- Caminho da Lombada
Ponta do Sol. Path along which the Furna do Calvário lies.
Path along which the Furna do Calvário lies.
- Canhas
Ponta do Sol. Parish whose parishioners were excused from the procession in 1607.
Canhas is a parish in the municipality of Ponta do Sol on Madeira's south coast, named after the Canha family and created in 1577, first installed at the chapel of São Tiago. The Elucidário records its church and chapels, local dress and speech, industries and localities such as Outeiro and Carvalhal e Carreira, its irrigation by a small private levada, and the sesmaria of Martim Afonso da Cunha.
- Chapel of Our Lady of Deliverance
Ponta do Sol. Destination of the Way of the Cross processions.
Destination of the Way of the Cross processions.
- Chapel of St Maurus
Ponta do Sol. Destination of the Way of the Cross processions.
The chapel of Santo Amaro is an old, ruined chapel at Lombada in Ponta do Sol parish, Madeira, attributed to Esmeraldo. It was the destination of the Way of the Cross processions.
- Chapel of St Sebastian
Ponta do Sol. Third-day destination of the Litanies procession in the town.
Third-day destination of the Litanies procession in the town.
- Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Lombada
Ponta do Sol. Station of the Litanies procession.
The Capela do Espírito Santo at the Lombada in Ponta do Sol was built by Esmeraldo, consecrated in 1508 and rebuilt in the eighteenth century. It served as a station of the Litanies procession.
- Church of Our Lady of Pity
Ponta do Sol. First-day destination of the Litanies procession according to a 1600 document.
First-day destination of the Litanies procession according to a 1600 document.
- Furna do Calvário
Ponta do Sol. Cave that served as a station of the Way of the Cross processions.
Cave that served as a station of the Way of the Cross processions.
- Jangão
Ponta do Sol. Possible site of the Nossa Senhora da Piedade chapel named in the 1607 order, queried in the text.
Jangão is one of the principal inhabited localities of Ponta do Sol parish, Madeira, and the former seat of the Vale da Bica entail founded by João Esmeraldo in 1522. It has the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade, restored in 1777 and 1879, which the text queries as possibly the chapel named in a 1607 procession order.
- Lombada
Ponta do Sol. Locality with chapels visited by the processions.
Lombada is a locality in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, Madeira, where João Esmeraldo had his sugar estates. Its chapels were visited by the Ponta do Sol processions.
- Lombo das Adegas
Ponta do Sol. Locality of the Livramento chapel.
Lombo das Adegas is an inhabited locality in Ponta do Sol parish, Madeira, once sesmaria land of the settler Pedro Delgado. It has a Santo António oratory enlarged into a public chapel in 1853, and its residents built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte; it was also the locality of the Livramento chapel.
- Madalena do Mar
Ponta do Sol. Parish whose parishioners were excused from the procession in 1607.
Madalena do Mar is a parish on the south-west coast of Madeira, in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, founded on the estate of the legendary Henrique Alemão and made an independent parish in 1582. The Elucidário records its chapels, sugar and banana farming, its capitania-mor, damage in the 1876 floods and the 1939 flood of the Ribeira da Madalena, and it was the birthplace of António Policarpo dos Passos Sousa.