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During the first years of the 16th century, the church was patronized and under the special protection of Álvaro Lopes do Vulcão and his wife D. Mecia Afonso (who were later buried near the altar of São Pedro). [1] From these references and his testament, there were just five curia in 1543. [1]
Map of the Azores Islands (1584) by Abraham Ortelius. The following article describes the history of the Azores, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, pronounced [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲɔɾɐ ðɨ ˈfatimɐ]; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
On the 20 November, under provision of D. João Pimenta de Abreu, then Bishop of Angra and the Azores, the hermits of Nossa Senhora da Consolação from the valley of Furnas, were authorized to construct homes alongside the hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (where they had already been housed temporarily). [1]
the Eparchy of Lisbon, covering the south of Portugal and overseas islands : Azores and Madeira; the Eparchy of Porto, serving the North of Portugal and Galicia. The presbyters and deacons may marry before ordination. There is one order of monastic life, called Order of Saint Basil (like the main Orthodox order), with eight monks and five nuns.
The wooden image of Christ, by unknown artist, in a Renaissance-style representation of the Ecce Homo, represents the episode of Jesus of Nazareth's life when the martyred religious figure was presented to the crowd following his whipping, and includes a crown of thorns, uncovered torso and bruised/beaten body. Narrated in the New Testament ...
The Catholic Church in The Azores is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The Azores was under the Grand Prior of the Order of Christ, and had their first diocese established in 1534 by Pope Paul III .
The church was concluded in 1693. [1] Its popularity meant that in 1719, the church was expanded; two tomb markers were discovered in the debris of the demolished church attesting to work done successively. [1] One was a stone tablet with the coat-of-arms of the D. Martinho Mascarenhas and the other, a stone cross with the dates 1693 and 1719. [1]