Pátio do Colégio
Pátio do Colégio Pateo do Collegio (archaic spelling) | |
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Roman Catholic | |
Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Built |
Status | Museum |
Location | |
Location | São Paulo, Brazil |
Geographic coordinates | 23°32′53″S 46°37′57″W / 23.548056°S 46.6325°W |
Architecture | |
Style | Portuguese Colonial |
Groundbreaking | 1554 |
Pátio do Colégio (in
The city of São Paulo has its beginnings in a
The date that marks the beginning of São Paulo is January 25, 1554, when the priests celebrated the inaugural mass of the Jesuit school. Initially, the church building was a modest hut covered with palm leaves or straw. In 1556, under father Afonso Brás, new buildings of the school and church were finished using taipa de pilão (rammed earth), a more solid technique. These buildings would be the centre of spiritual and educational life in the settlement in the next couple of centuries.
Since its beginnings, the Jesuit action in evangelising the
In 1759, with the
In 1953, during the celebrations of the city's 400th anniversary, the area was given back to the Jesuit order. Thanks to their relative simple architecture and the abundance of 19th-century
Anchieta Museum
In 1979, a museum dedicated to Father
See also
Footnotes
References
- Pateo do Collegio official website
- Eduardo Bueno. Coleção Terra Brasilis Volume 4 - A Coroa, a Cruz e a Espada. Ed. Objetiva. Rio de Janeiro, 2006. (in Portuguese)