Madalena do Mar
Madalena do Mar · Ponta do Sol
parish of Madalena do Mar, municipality of Ponta do Sol, Madeira
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.
1Mentioned in
- Banda de Além — Parish containing the locality.
- Ponta do Sol (town and municipality) — Part of the municipality.
- Porto Santo customs house — Port where a fiscal post was ordered.
- Militia — Seat of a capitania-mor.
- Flash floods — Only parish notably damaged in 1876.
- Processions of Candlemas, the Litanies and the Way of the Cross in Ponta do Sol — Parish whose parishioners were excused from the procession in 1607.
- St Quiteria (chantries) — Parish where a third Santa Quitéria chapel existed.
- Iron — Cellular iron occurs here.
- Our Lady of Wonders (chapel) — Parish of the Passo chapel.
- Immaculate Conception (chapels) — Home of the Freitas family who inherited the entail.
- Passos Sousa (António Policarpo dos) — His birthplace.
- Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) — Here the plant called macela is Achillea ageratum.
- Lessa (Father António João de) — Birthplace of Padre Lessa.
- Fernandes (Gonçalo) — Seat of the Freitas family who later inherited the entail.
- Isabel (Princess) — Where she landed on the western sea trip.
- Ponta do Tristão — Place a short distance from the headland.
- Meteorological stations — Temperature and rain-gauge post.
- Our Lady of the Angels (chapel) — Parish where Frutuoso placed the chapel.
- Arco da Calheta (parish) — Neighbouring parish and a boundary of Arco.
- Alemão (Henrique) — Where Henrique Alemão received land and founded his estate and chapel.
- Stream walls — Walls built under Oudinot proved effective in 1804.
- Freitas — Where João Rodrigues de Freitas held land, died and was buried.
- Albuquerque — Seat of the Freitas family into which D. Sebastiana de Albuquerque married.
- Ponta do Sol (parish) — Parish created from Ponta do Sol's original territory.
- Arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) — Where arrowroot is cultivated and processed.
2Chronology
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Infante D. Henrique confirmed Henrique Alemão's land grant at Madalena do Mar.
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King Afonso V confirmed Henrique Alemão's land grant at Madalena do Mar.
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Madalena, Canhas and Tabua are supposed to have been separated from Ponta do Sol as parishes around this time.
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João Rodrigues de Freitas died at Madalena and was buried in the church founded by Henrique Alemão.
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The Ponta do Sol council reordered the route of the Litanies procession and excused the parishioners of Canhas and Madalena do Mar.
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Padre António João de Lessa was born in Madalena do Mar.
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António Policarpo dos Passos Sousa was born at Madalena do Mar.
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Floods damaged Madalena do Mar.