Angústias Cemetery
Cemitério das Angústias
São Martinho · Funchal
Parish of São Pedro, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
Funchal municipal cemetery, which grew from a small Misericórdia burial ground of 1818 and was built in 1836–38. It has a carved basalt portico, a mortuary and a 1917 monument to the victims of the German bombardment. The 2nd Count of Carvalhal and Dean Andrade are among those buried there.
1Mentioned in
- São Pedro (parish) — Cemetery within the parish.
- Geology — Portico with carved basalt.
- Cemeteries — Cemetery begun in 1836 and completed in 1838.
- Mangin (General) — Cemetery from which the sailors' remains were taken.
- St Francis in Funchal (convent) — Where the founder's tombstone was moved in 1865.
- Carvalhal (2nd Count of) — Cemetery where the count was buried in his family tomb.
- Bravos do Mindelo (the Heroes of Mindelo) — Rodrigues da Silva was appointed its keeper in 1839.
- Andrade (Dean António Joaquim Gonçalves de) — Andrade's burial place.
- Tomb Monument — Site of the monument.
- Mortuary — Cemetery where the mortuary stands.
- Inscribed stones — Cemetery holding the São Francisco epitaph and exhumed bones.
- Our Lady of the Peña de Francia (chapel) — Cemetery where Canon Augusto Frederico de Castilho was buried.
- Sarraut (Alberto) — Cemetery holding the monument to the Surprise sailors.
- Barreto (Dom Manuel Agostinho) — Cemetery where the burial of a suicide caused his conflict with the council, and where he was first buried.
- Our Lady of Sorrows — Closed Funchal cemetery whose chapel was built in 1844.
- Franco de Sousa (Francisco) — Cemetery holding Franco's monument to the victims of the 1916 torpedo attacks.
- Neves (Dr Cassiano das) — Cemetery where burial was refused.
- Monument commemorating the Bombardment of Funchal — Site of the memorial.
- Bombardment of Funchal — Hit in 1916; site of the victims' memorial.
- Carvalhal (1st Count of) — Cemetery where his remains were moved to a mausoleum.
- Ornelas e Vasconcelos (Aires de) — Funchal cemetery to which his remains were moved in 1934.
- Castilho (Viscount of) — Cemetery where Augusto Castilho was buried and his monument stands.
- Surprise — Cemetery where the victims were buried and the 1921 ceremonies took place.
- Lambert (Quinta) — Earlier entry where the chapel's founding was discussed.
2Chronology
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The São Roque cemetery, Funchal's oldest Catholic cemetery, was built and work began on the Angústias cemetery.
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The Angústias cemetery in Funchal and the Porto Santo cemetery were completed.
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Francisco António Rodrigues da Silva was appointed keeper of the Angústias cemetery.
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The chapel of the Angústias cemetery in Funchal was built and was blessed by Bishop Cerveira e Sousa on 15 December 1844.
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Bones and the founder's tombstone from the demolished São Francisco convent in Funchal were transferred to the Angústias cemetery.
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After a suicide in Funchal was refused church burial but buried in the Angústias cemetery, Bishop Barreto placed the cemetery under interdict; Cassiano das Neves published a pamphlet on the affair in Porto.
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The municipal council ordered construction of the mortuary at the Angústias cemetery.
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The German submarine U-38 torpedoed three ships in Funchal harbour, including the French gunboat Surprise (33 crew and 7 Portuguese killed), and shelled the city, causing widespread panic. The victims were later commemorated by a monument made by Francisco Franco.
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The bombardment victims' monument in the Angústias cemetery was handed over to the Funchal municipal council.
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General Mangin visited Funchal aboard the cruiser Jules Michelet, which left for France with the remains of the Surprise sailors after a procession from the Angústias cemetery.
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The remains of Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos were transferred to the Angústias cemetery in Funchal.