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São Tomé

São Tomé

São Tomé and Príncipe · Africa

São Tomé is an island abroad whose diocese was made suffragan to the see of Funchal. Tristão Vaz was exiled there, Dr José Júlio Rodrigues visited it in 1885 to study quinine, Dr Júlio Augusto Henriques made a scientific voyage there, and Dr Fernando Tolentino da Costa worked there as a physician.

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2Chronology

  1. Funchal was raised by papal bull to an archdiocese with suffragans Angra, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Goa, its cathedral becoming an archiepiscopal see.

  2. Dr José Júlio Rodrigues travelled to São Tomé to study the quinine industry.

  3. The botanist Júlio Augusto Henriques visited Madeira en route to São Tomé.

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