Nossa Senhora do Monte (Funchal)

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Nossa Senhora do Monte is a Catholic pilgrimage church in Monte , Madeira . It was built from 1741. Since an earthquake destroyed the completed new building in 1748, it could not be inaugurated until December 20, 1818. Emperor and King Karl of Austria-Hungary , who was beatified in 2004, is buried in the church.

description

Exterior

A flight of stairs leads to three arcades that lead to the entrance portal. The main nave is flanked by two bell towers. The edges and windows of the church still show the unplastered dark tuff stone .

Interior

In the high altar is a picture of the Holy Virgin . There are side altars to the left and right of the high altar. There is also a side chapel with additional altars on the left and right of the main nave. Next to the left side chapel and the pulpit there is access to the burial chapel of Emperor Karl I.

  • Main nave of the church

  • Sanctuary

  • Left side altar

  • Right side altar

  • Capela do Imaculado Coração de Maria

  • Capela do Santíssimo Sacramento

  • pulpit

  • Baptismal font

Burial chapel of Emperor Karl I.

Location of the burial chapel on the left side of the main nave

The black metal sarcophagus of the last monarch of Austria-Hungary , Charles I , is set up on a stone plinth in a side chapel on the left side of the main nave . He was sent into exile after the First World War . On November 19, 1921 he came to Funchal, where he lived with his family in the manor Quinta Gordon above the church until his death on April 1, 1922 . The funeral in the church of Monte took place on April 4th in the presence of the Bishop of Funchal. About 30,000 people attended the ceremony. In 2004, Emperor Charles I was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Rome .

Tyrolean cross

Behind his coffin is a cross by the South Tyrolean sculptor Valentin Gallmetzer , which used to stand near the Widum in Feldthurns . Zita , the wife of Karl I, wanted a Tyrolean cross and commissioned Franz Josef Count Forni (1904–1992), who approached Karl Wolfsgruber . He thought of the cross whose artist had had a close relationship with the emperor, bought it, had it restored and brought to Monte via the Portuguese embassy in Rome.

A tablet with the following wording is mounted on the back: Carolus quidam Brixinensis hunc salutis mundi signum anno MCM-LXVII dicavit. Valentinus Gallmetzer ex civitate Clusinense aetati LXXXV annorum hanc imaginem sculpsit . As a replacement for Feldthurns, he had a similar cross made by the Villnöss artist Oswald Senoner.

  • View into the burial chapel (2013)

  • View into the burial chapel (2016)

  • Emperor's sarcophagus

  • Portrait of the Emperor

Plaque
Memorial plaque to the right of the entrance to the burial chapel of Emperor Karl I.

To the right of the entrance to the burial chapel of Emperor Charles I is a memorial plaque with the Latin inscription:

CAROLUS I. D [ei]. G [ratia]. AUSTRIAE IMPERATOR
BOHEMIAE REX ETC. ETC. ETC.
APOSTOLICUS REX HUNGARIAE NOMINE IV
NATUS PERSENBEUG XVII-VIII MDCCCLXXXVII
OBIIT MADEIRA I-IV MCMXXII
ADORANS SS. SACRAMENTUM PRAESENS
DICENS "FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA"

Church forecourt

Bronze statue of Emperor Karl I in front of the church

After the beatification of Emperor Charles I in 2004, a bronze statue of Charles I by the Portuguese sculptor Augusto Cid was placed on the square in front of the church .

Assumption procession

Every August 15th, on the feast of the Assumption of Mary, there is a large procession in honor of the Virgin. The 68 steps of the open staircase are covered on your knees.

See also

Web links

Commons : Nossa Senhora do Monte  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Kovács: The fall or salvation of the Danube monarchy? Volume 1: The Austrian Question. Emperor and King Charles I (IV.) And the reorganization of Central Europe. Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77238-5 , Chapter XXV (online)
  2. ↑ Jan Mikrut (Ed.): Emperor Karl I. (IV.) As a Christian, statesman, husband and family father , Volume 1 of publications of the International Research Institute for the Promotion of Church History in Central Europe , Cathedral, 2004, ISBN 3-85351-188- 0 , p. 197; or:
    Josef Gelmi: The last Emperor: Karl I. (1887-1922) and Tirol , Tyrolia, 2004, ISBN 3-7022-2619-2 , pp. 97-98
  3. ↑ German: Karl I. Thanks to God's Emperor of Austria | King of Bohemia etc. etc. etc. | Apostolic King of Hungary called IV. | Born in Persenbeug, August 17th, 1887 | Died in Madeira on April 1st, 1922 | In adoration of the saints and in the presence of the sacrament he said | "Your will will happen"

Coordinates: 32 ° 40 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 16 ° 54 ′ 9.1 ″  W.