St Quiteria (chantries)
Original title: Santa Quitéria (Capelas de)
Describes three former chapels dedicated to Santa Quitéria in Madeira: at Pico do Cardo in Santo António parish (1727), at Lombo da Estrela in Calheta (1724), and at Madalena do Mar.
Writing about the chantry (capela) of this dedication, Dr Álvaro de Azevedo states that it was founded by Simão de Nobrega in Curral das Freiras (‘nuns’ fold’), which is plainly a mistake. This chantry stood in the parish (freguesia) of Santo António (‘St Anthony’) and was built by Second Lieutenant Simão de Nobrega e Sousa and his wife Maria Tavares de Sousa on the quinta (country estate) they owned in the locality (sítio) of Pico do Cardo (‘thistle peak’), in that parish. In Curral das Freiras there was only the chapel of St Anthony of Padua (Santo António), which the nuns of the Convent of St Clare (Santa Clara) had built. The chantry of Santa Quitéria was built in 1727, and its deed of endowment is dated 3 July of that year. By 1814 it had been deconsecrated, and divine worship had not been celebrated in it for many years. It gave its name to the locality in which it was built.
There was another chantry of the same dedication in the locality of Lombo da Estrela (‘ridge of the star’), in the parish of Calheta (‘small cove’), founded in 1724 by João Homem de Abreu and his wife Dona Ana Quitéria or Luzia. The deed of endowment is dated 30 May of that year.
A chantry of Santa Quitéria, founded by Father João da Silva Alves, once existed in the parish of Madalena do Mar (‘Magdalene by the sea’).
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Places mentioned · 09- Chapel of St Quiteria · Subject
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Three former chapels dedicated to Santa Quitéria in Madeira. They stood at Pico do Cardo in Santo António parish (1727), at Lombo da Estrela in Calheta (1724), and at Madalena do Mar.
- Calheta
Parish of the Lombo da Estrela chapel.
Calheta is a town, parish and municipality on Madeira's south-west coast and one of the island's oldest settlements. The Elucidário covers its name, early settlers such as Pedro Berenguer, its church and many chapels, including one of a former Franciscan convent, and the 1834 riot.
- Chapel of St Anthony
Funchal. Hermitage built by the Santa Clara nuns, the only chapel in Curral das Freiras.
Hermitage built by the Santa Clara nuns, the only chapel in Curral das Freiras.
- Convent of St Clare
Funchal. Convent whose nuns built the Curral das Freiras hermitage.
A convent in Funchal founded in 1492–97 by the second captain-donatary João Gonçalves da Câmara beside the church of Conceição de Cima. It is the burial place of the Câmara family and holds a 1447 document spelling the name 'Zargo'. It was granted in 1912 for a new hospital and was later chosen to house the archaeological museum.
- Curral das Freiras
Câmara de Lobos. Wrongly given by Azevedo as the chapel's site; only a Santo António hermitage existed there.
Small inland parish set in a deep valley believed to be an extinct volcanic crater and Madeira's main eruptive focus. The estate was bought for the nuns of Santa Clara, who fled there in 1566 and gave it their name, and it was created a parish in 1790. It was earlier a pasture and a refuge for runaway slaves and criminals, and it became a julgado of the Funchal comarca in 1927.
- Lombo da Estrela
Calheta. Site of the 1724 Santa Quitéria chapel.
Principal locality of Calheta parish, where the parish was first seated in the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Estrela and where moving the town seat has often been proposed. It has chapels of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso (1683) and Santa Quitéria (1724).
- Madalena do Mar
Ponta do Sol. Parish where a third Santa Quitéria chapel existed.
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.
- Pico do Cardo
Funchal. Site of the quinta where the 1727 chapel was built; the locality took its name from it.
A 438 m hill and locality in Santo António parish, Funchal, the site of a Jesuit quinta and residence where Inácio de Azevedo and his companions stayed. The estate had a chapel of Nossa Senhora do Pópulo and a 1727 Santa Quitéria chapel, and it was later sold for 7 contos.
- Santo António
Funchal. Parish containing the 1727 chapel.
Santo António is a parish in the municipality of Funchal, Madeira, where the São João stream rises and the Jesuits had their Pico do Cardo residence. Its church bears a 1783 Latin inscription, and the parish contains the Madalena, São João e Santana and Pópulo chapels; it also gives its name to a hill of about 400 metres near its church.
People
People mentioned · 06- Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo1825–1898
Historian whose claim that the chapel stood in Curral das Freiras is corrected here.
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Wife of João Homem de Abreu and co-founder of the Lombo da Estrela chapel.
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Priest who founded a Santa Quitéria chapel in Madalena do Mar.
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Founder with his wife of the Santa Quitéria chapel at Lombo da Estrela, Calheta, in 1724.
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Wife of Simão de Nobrega e Sousa and co-founder of the Pico do Cardo chapel.
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Ensign who with his wife built the Santa Quitéria chapel on their quinta at Pico do Cardo in 1727.