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Elucidário Madeirense

Place church/chapel Quinta Grande Câmara de Lobos

Chapel of the True Cross

Capela da Vera Cruz

Quinta Grande · Câmara de Lobos

parish of Achadas da Cruz, municipality of Porto Moniz, Madeira

32°39′57″ N17°01′21″ W Google Maps

Main article True Cross (Chapel of the) An old chapel dedicated to the True Cross, whose founding was planned by the discoverer João Gonçalves Zargo; it now belongs to the parish of Quinta Grande, where it surrounds the parish cemetery.

Sixteenth-century chapel of the True Cross in Achadas da Cruz, which probably gave the parish its name.

Map: Madeira (1)

Map: Madeira (1)

1Mentioned in

Achadas da Cruz (parish) — Sixteenth-century chapel that probably gave the parish its name.
Quinta Grande (parish) — Church marked out by Zargo, now within the parish.

2Chronology

1577
Bishop Jerónimo Barreto abolished the curacy of Vera Cruz.

3Nearby