Sardinha (Father Alfredo de Paula)
Original title: Sardinha (Padre Alfredo de Paula)
Biography of Father Alfredo de Paula Sardinha (1861–1897), Funchal-born priest, poet, journalist and orator who served several rural parishes.
He was born in Funchal on 2 April 1861 and died in the parish (freguesia) of Arco da Calheta (‘arc of Calheta’) on 23 May 1897. He studied at the Lyceum (Liceu) and the seminary (Seminário) of this city, and was ordained priest in 1885. He served as parish priest in the parishes of Santana, Faial, Fajã da Ovelha and Arco da Calheta.
He had shown a decided vocation for letters, in both prose and verse, but misfortune and illness sadly prevented him from devoting himself to sustained literary work, though much was to be expected of his undeniable talent and cultivated mind. He left various writings scattered through the newspapers, especially in A Verdade, of which he was an editor. He wrote many poems, some of which enjoyed great popularity and are still recited and sung today by some of his contemporaries.
He had remarkable gifts as an orator and in 1894 published the pamphlet Discurso recitado na sala da Associação Católica do Funchal....
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- Arco da Calheta
Calheta. Parish he served and where he died.
Arco da Calheta is a parish in the municipality of Calheta, created in 1572 around the chapel of São Brás, whose church holds sixteenth-century paintings. The Elucidário covers its early settlers such as the Andrades, sugar estates, chapels, entails, unrest in 1834 and 1887, and irrigation by the Rabaçal and Pico da Urze levadas.
- Faial
Santana. Parish where he served.
Faial is a north-coast parish of Santana municipality created in 1550, whose mountain springs feed the Levada da Serra. It contains Chícharos and the Diferença chapel, owns the eastern part of Pico Ruivo, and is noted for cheese-making and columnar basalt.
- Fajã da Ovelha
Calheta. Parish where he served.
Fajã da Ovelha is a parish in the municipality of Calheta, western Madeira. It grew from the chapel of São Lourenço, and its new church was built in the 18th century. It is watered by the old Rabaçal levada, contains the Pico da Fonte do Bispo in its uplands, and is noted for producing some of Madeira's best peaches.
- Funchal
His birthplace, where he studied at the Lyceum and Seminary.
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.
- Santana
Parish where he served.
Santana is a parish on Madeira's north coast, praised as the most picturesque of the north. It was created from São Jorge in the 16th century, and the entry covers its settlement, parish priests, church, localities and population.
People
People mentioned · 01- Alfredo de Paula Sardinha1861–1897
Madeiran priest, poet and editor of A Verdade, subject of this entry.