St Peter (chapel)
Original title: São Pedro (Capela de)
Describes the chapels dedicated to Saint Peter in Porto Santo, Santa Cruz, São Jorge and Porto Moniz (Terra de São Pedro and Lamaceiros), with notes on their founding, destruction and restoration.
Chapels of Saint Peter
At the western end of the south coast of the island of Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’) stands a small chapel dedicated to St Peter, which once had a small pilgrims’ house attached to it. The annual feast of the patron saint is celebrated there, attended by large numbers of the island’s inhabitants.
In the parish (freguesia) of Santa Cruz (‘Holy Cross’), west of the town (vila) and beside the road, stands the chapel of St Peter, founded by João Escorcio Drumond. It was razed by the flash flood (aluvião) of 1803 and rebuilt by the people some years later.
Near the parish church of the parish of São Jorge (‘St George’) there is a chapel dedicated to St Peter. It had fallen into ruin and was restored in 1901 by the prelate Dom Manuel Agostinho Barreto, who himself blessed it and returned it to worship on 7 August of the same year.
In the parish of Porto Moniz (‘Moniz’s harbour’), at the place known as Terra de São Pedro (‘St Peter’s land’), there was once a small chapel dedicated to St Peter, of which not even traces remain.
In the locality (sítio) of Lamaceiros (‘mud flats’), in the same parish, there is a chapel consecrated to St Peter, to which the image of the saint from the other chapel of the same dedication was moved. It is not of recent construction, for as early as 1726 it was already in an advanced state of ruin. Some years later it was properly repaired through the efforts of Manuel Rodrigues Amarelo. The earthquake of 1748 caused it various kinds of damage, and it was promptly repaired. Only a few years ago important works were carried out on it. The chapel holds a greatly venerated image of Our Lady of the Mount (Nossa Senhora do Monte).
The Blessed Sacrament (Santíssimo Sacramento) is always reserved in this chapel, and the doors of the little church stand open every day and all day long for anyone who wishes to visit it (1921).
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The São Pedro chapel at Lamaceiros was recorded as badly ruined.
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On the night of 31 March to 1 April 1748 a violent earthquake struck Madeira, causing few deaths but heavy damage to buildings, including the cathedral, the bishops' palace, the customs house, the Monte church, the Mosteiro Novo house and numerous chapels and parish churches.
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The great flood of 9 October 1803, considered Madeira's greatest calamity, devastated Funchal and other parts of the island, killing about 600 people and destroying the Calhau church, stream walls, bridges and chapels in Machico, Santa Cruz and elsewhere. It prompted Oudinot's mission and the city's spread outwards.
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Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the restored chapel at São Jorge and returned it to worship.
Place
Places mentioned · 08- Chapel of St Peter · Subject
Santa Cruz
Chapel of São Pedro in Santa Cruz, founded by João Escorcio Drumond. It was destroyed in 1803 and rebuilt on a safer site.
- Chapel of St Peter · Subject
Porto Santo
A chapel dedicated to Saint Peter, listed among the chapels of the parish of Porto Santo. The Elucidário covers it together with other São Pedro chapels, with notes on their founding, destruction and restoration.
- Lamaceiros
Porto Moniz. Locality with the surviving Saint Peter chapel of Porto Moniz.
Lamaceiros is a locality in the parish of Porto Moniz that is worth visiting for its views. It has the surviving São Pedro chapel, damaged in the 1748 earthquake, and lies on the projected road above Porto Moniz.
- Porto Moniz
Parish with two Saint Peter chapels, one vanished.
North-western parish and municipality with a quay and a tolerable port that serves as a good landing when southerly winds close the south coast. It has one of the oldest Magdalene chapels in northern Madeira, whose feast falls on 22 July. It was the birthplace of Dr Manuel Gomes Jardim.
- Porto Santo
A Saint Peter chapel stands at the western end of its south coast.
An island of the archipelago, settled alongside Madeira and forming one of the three captaincies. It has always constituted a single parish, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Piedade, whose church was repeatedly sacked. The Elucidário records the Moorish pirate raid of 1617, its own Misericórdia and a rainwater channel built on this drought-prone island.
- Santa Cruz
Parish with a Saint Peter chapel by the road west of the town.
Santa Cruz is a parish and one of Madeira's oldest settlements, named after a cross Zarco had raised there at the discovery. The Elucidário covers its early ecclesiastical history, collegiate church, chapels, noble settlers and localities.
- São Jorge
Santana. Parish with a Saint Peter chapel near the parish church.
North-coast parish that was an original parish of Santana municipality and gives its name to the northern archpriest district. It is known for plant-fossil and lignite deposits studied by Heer and Bunbury, and for a 17th-century landslide. The Elucidário also describes its islet, headland, quay and stream.
- Terra de São Pedro
Porto Moniz. Site of a vanished Saint Peter hermitage.
Site of a vanished Saint Peter hermitage.
People
People mentioned · 03- D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto1835–1911
Bishop of Funchal who restored and blessed the São Jorge chapel of Saint Peter in 1901.
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Founder of the Saint Peter chapel west of the town of Santa Cruz.
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Arranged the repair of the ruined Saint Peter chapel at Lamaceiros, Porto Moniz, after 1726.