Funchal Seminary
Seminário do Funchal
Sé · Funchal
seminary in Funchal, Madeira
The Seminário do Funchal is the diocesan seminary in Funchal. Among those who studied there were Manuel Pestana dos Reis, Padre José Gonçalves de Aguiar and the poet Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega, who was expelled. Padre Ernesto Schmitz taught there, became vice-rector and founded a museum, which Padre Jaime de Gouveia Barreto, a former student and teacher, later directed.
1Mentioned in
- Pestana dos Reis (Manuel) — He studied there before law school.
- Schmitz (Father Ernst) — Where Schmitz was vice-rector and founded a museum.
- Berkeley Cotter (J.C.) — Where Padre Schmitz taught.
- Aguiar (Father Dr José Gonçalves de) — Where he studied before university.
- Alvares de Nobrega (Francisco) — Seminary where the poet studied and from which he was expelled.
- Barreto (Father Jaime de Gouveia) — Seminary where Barreto studied and later taught, and whose museum he directed.
2Chronology
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Padre Ernesto João Schmitz became vice-rector of the Funchal Seminary.
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Father Ernesto Schmitz founded the natural history museum of the Seminary in Funchal.
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Padre Ernesto Schmitz ceased directing the Seminary museum, was honoured by the single issue of Preito e Homenagem, and left Madeira on 7 July 1908 to direct the Hospice of St Paul in Jerusalem.