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Nuclei and Museum Places of Emigration
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Hospital
Hospital
Hospital
Hospital
Hospital
Hospital
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As
far as philanthropy in Fafe is concerned, you can find the São José Hospital
and two other buildings which were used as asylums such as “Infância
Desvalida” (for poor children) and Invalids. These were expressions of
philanthropist actions in the nineteenth century.
The
Hospital building (1860) was built thanks to the financial support of the
“Brazilians” from Torna-Viagem; it was the architectural replica of a
hospital (in Rio de Janeiro) which belonged to the Portuguese Society of
Beneficence (1853).
The
personal and financial participation of the emigrants from Torna-Viagem in the
creation of the first “association” of social nature, was also patent in
the foundation of the São José Brotherhood on 21st March 1862.
Those emigrants were the purveyors and stewards, and they were represented in
large oil paintings, which is another symbolic visible expression of their
prestige and social status.
The
construction of the São José Hospital or the “Misericórdia” (started in
1859 and inaugurated in 1863) is the fruit of the strong links between the
emigrants in Brazil and those who lived in Fafe. In fact, a commission of
subscribers appeared in order to get funds for the construction of a hospital
in their homeland; it was composed of Commander António Gonçalves Guimarães
(the president of the commission), Bernardo Ribeiro de Freitas, Luís António
Rebelo de Castro, Leonardo Ribeiro de Freitas, Commander Albino de Oliveira
Guimarães, Commander José António Vieira de
Castro, José António
Martins Guimarães, António Joaquim de Castro, António Joaquim da Silva,
Agostinho Gonçalves Guimarães and António Gomes de Castro. They managed to collect five “contos de rei” at first.
In
Fafe, another commission was responsible for the construction of the hospital;
that commission was composed of Dr Florêncio Ribeiro da Silva and three
successful returned emigrants António Leite Lage, José Florêncio Soares and
Miguel António Monteiro de Campos.
The construction of the asylums (Santo António Invalids and “infância Desvalida”) was promoted respectively by Manuel Baptista Maia and António Joaquim Vieira Montenegro, two emigrants in Brazil. The rich businessman António Joaquim Vieira Montenegro also left in his testament (in January 1874) 15,300$00 reis for the poor girls of Fafe and 7,600$00 for a primary school in Travassós.
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