History [edit | edit source code] The temple was erected in fulfillment of a vow made in 1849 by Colonel Nicolau Maria Raposo de Amaral (1770-1865) and his wife, Teresa Ermelinda Rebelo (1797-1895). The invocation was chosen St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra in Lycia, buried in Bari, Italy, and therefore improperly designated as "bishop of Bari" .1
The chosen site, with 25,000 square meters, had been previously acquired, April 3, 1834, becoming a member of one primogeniture established by deed since September 29, 1821. Design in Gothic Revival style was entrusted to Manuel Lamberto Monteiro, which was also responsible for directing the work, started in 1849 with the support of 60 workers. Was decisive for the choice of location of the temple a spring of water nearby, which made the temple stay relatively isolated. To provide you with access, we constructed a mall cedar, headed today by two towering pines. By deed of June 25, 1857 the temple was endowed with a sum of 2 $ 600 annual reis for their conservation. Subsequently, on May 11, 1859 received a dowry to the oil lamp of the Blessed Sacrament. The church was consecrated amid great festivity on August 16, 1857, with a solemn Mass celebrated by the bishop of the Diocese of Angra, D. Frei Estêvão de Jesus Maria. The founders kept a chaplain, who had built the Passal, allowing the valley population attend Mass, which, until then, was only possible in the neighboring parishes. At the time, the place of the Sete Cidades belonged to the parishes and Ginetes and Mosteiros, separated by the bed of the "Ribeira da Praia", which came to be called, henceforth, Rua da Igreja. The law of May 19, 1863, which abolished the morgadios in Portugal, made this temple back to the ownership of its founders. In the twentieth century, his heirs, no longer wishing to preserve it, donated it to the people in 1969, which became the headquarters of curacy in the parish office on 23 May of that same year. A little later, in 1971, the Sete Cidades were elevated to parish. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:11 AM, 'John Raposo' via Azores Genealogy < azores@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Sete Cidades and its church, (S. Nicolau) is part of the Parish of > Ginetes, and its church, is a mission (of sorts) of the Ginetes parish > church. I do not see a separate set of books for Sete Cidades/S. Nicolau, > so perhaps it is still not a separate parish. > Várzea was a part of Ginetes. It's church, Jesus Maria e José was a > suffragan of the Ginetes parish church and only begins having its own > registries of births, marriages and deaths in 1904. > > > On Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:00 AM, Margaret Vicente < > margaretvice...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The marriage record reads: "nesta igreja de Sao Nicolau sufraganea da > Paroquial de Sao Sebastiao do lugar dos Ginetes" > Translating to "in this church of S. Nicolau suffragan/subordinate of S. > Sebastiao's Parish of Ginetes'| > > > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:29 PM, IslandRoutes < > insearchofthehumanspi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh gosh! I am so sorry to everyone that that other link was posted. I > have no idea how I did that. I'm am red with embarrasment. > > This is the correct link for the marriage record in Mosteiros for Manoel > Raposo and Maria Albina. The record seems to say they were married in Sete > Cidades and Ginetes, though I know that is not possible. The record is in > the book for marriages in Mosteiros. > > > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-MOSTEIROS-C-1870-1879/SMG-PD-MOSTEIROS-C-1870-1879_item1/P3.html > > Thanks and my sincere apologies to all! > > Mel > > On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 7:36:42 PM UTC-7, Mara wrote: > > Mel, > > It's all dependent of which church headed which parishes. But as far as I > know Ginetes is separate from Mosteiros. Please try resending the correct > link. > > Sete Cidades Chapel was built mid 1800's and until such time it received > its own priest Sete Cidades was under Ginetes and Mosteiros. > > > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. 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