Santa Maria Maior
Santa Maria Maior · Funchal
Parish of Santa Maria Maior, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
A partly urban parish in the eastern part of Funchal, the oldest of the archipelago, also known as Nossa Senhora do Calhau or Socorro. Its church is the former St James church, and it is noted for embroiderers producing the finest work. It became a julgado of the Funchal comarca in 1927.
1Mentioned in
- Levadas — Parish that joined the farmers' levada petition.
- Poor Souls (chapels) — Parish of the earlier, vanished Almas Pobres chapel.
- Embroidery — Parish of professional embroiderers producing the finest work.
- Limoges — Parish where the chapel of São Filipe was founded.
- Silva (Nicolau Francisco Xavier da) — Funchal parish where he was born.
- Vow to St James — Parish whose church is the former St James church.
- Lemos (Dom Jorge de) — New parish created when Funchal was divided into two.
- Inscribed stones — Funchal parish of São Filipe chapel and São Tiago Menor church.
- Lopes Rocha (João Francisco) — Funchal parish of which he was appointed parish priest in 1775.
- Faria e Castro (José Carlos de) — Parish of his birth.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Partly urban parish of Funchal.
- Funchal (judicial district) — Became a julgado of the Funchal comarca in 1927.
- St James the Less (church) — Parish whose seat moved to São Tiago church in 1803.
- National Scout Corps — Parish where scout Group 88 (Santiago) was founded.
- Cholera morbus in 1856 and 1910 — District where the 1856 epidemic spread first.
- City limits — Eastern urban parish.
- Mota Freitas (Carlos Elói) — Funchal parish containing the renamed lane.
- Flash floods — Funchal district worst hit in 1803, with about 200 deaths.
- Misericórdias — Parish to which the hospital moved around 1484.
- Levadas — Parish irrigated by the Levada da Serra.
- Customs houses — Area traditionally said to have housed the first customs.
- Oliveira (Canon Alfredo César de) — Parish where he served as priest.
- Infante (peak) — The parish in which the peak stands.
- Our Lady Mother of Mankind — Parish of the chapel.
- Immaculate Conception (chapels) — Parish of the Choupana chapel.
- Our Lady of the Good Voyage (chapels) — Parish of the older Boa Viagem chapel.
- Our Lady of Good Success (chapels) — Parish of the council-owned chapel.
- Teles — Parish of the chapel of Santo António founded by António Teles.
- Nery (lane) — Parish where the lane lay.
- Our Lady of the Joys (chapels) — Parish of the second, entailed chapel.
- União Market — Parish whose confraternity of the Santíssimo owned a building demolished for the market.
- Nativity of Our Lady (chapel) — Parish containing the chapel.
- Charitable institutions — Parish to which the first hospital was moved.
- Conferences of St Vincent de Paul — Conference installed 19 July 1908.
- St Philip (chapel) — Parish of the Limoges chapel.
- Silva (family) — Parish where the Almas Pobres hermitage stands.
- Carlos (Campo de D.) — District the square was built to sanitise.
- Lazareto (road) — One of the two parishes crossed by the road.
- Moniz (Dr Lourenço José) — Funchal parish where Moniz was born.
- Moniz (Dr Patrício) — Parish where Moniz was born.
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2Chronology
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Gonçalo Diniz da Silva founded an Almas Pobres chapel in Santa Maria Maior.
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The Funchal hospital moved to Santa Maria Maior.
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João Gomes de Castro was administrator of the Prazeres chapel in Santa Maria Maior.
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Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando blessed the new chapel of St James in Funchal.
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Pedro Lopes de Vasconcelos founded the entail on which the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Saúde do Monte Olivete was built.
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António Teles de Meneses, then living in Madeira, founded a chapel of Saint Anthony in Santa Maria Maior.
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The Funchal council resolved to demolish the old chapel of St James and build a larger church, completed in 1768.
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A royal letter appointed João Francisco Lopes Rocha parish priest of Santa Maria Maior.
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José Carlos de Faria e Castro was born in Santa Maria Maior, Funchal.
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The Santa Maria Maior conference of St Vincent de Paul was installed.