Início heritage church of espírito santo (current funerary chapel in the center of the village)

Abrir Lista
Aguiar   Alcáçovas   Viana do Alentejo Geral

DATE
16th (?)-20th centuries 

PHOTOGRAPHY
Church of Espírito Santo 
Joaquim Filipe Bacalas - 2017

TEXT
Fátima Farrica - 2015

Church of Espírito Santo (current funerary chapel in the center of the village)


 

Of small size, located in the present Street Pe. Luís António da Cruz, it could have still been built in the 16th century and in it operated the confraternity of the same invocation. In 1700 was in ruins and the outside judge Dr. Bento Barradas Lobo ordered its rebuilding. It was re-inaugurated the following year, and the first mass was celebrated on the day of St. Sylvester and was said by Fr. Manuel de Santo António, from the Convento de São Francisco (St Francis’s Convent)
Facing north, the portal is enclosed by a white marble frame where the following inscription reads: This House is of the Holy Spirit. It also has, on the left side of the observer of the façade, a recessed cross made of the same stone with the inscription IHS. This is the acronym of the expression Iesus Hominibus Salvatoren, which means "Jesus Saviour of Men."
It has a rectangular plan, with a main chapel separated by a round arch with a panelled cover of quadrangular, baroque caissons. Disaffected from the cult, was adapted to a funerary chapel in the eighties, after serving, for years, as a warehouse.
 

 

REFERENCES
ESPANCA, Túlio, Inventário Artístico de Portugal: Distrito de Évora: Concelhos de Alandroal, Borba, Mourão, Portel, Redondo, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Viana do Alentejo e Vila Viçosa, Lisboa, Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes, 1978,Tomo IX, Vol. 1.

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