São Pedro () is a

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, located in the

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Vila do Porto Vila do Porto (; "Port Town") is the single concelho, municipality, the name of the main town and one of the Vila do Porto (parish), civil parishes on the island of Santa Maria Island, Santa Maria, in the Portugal, Portuguese archipelago of Azor ...

, in the

autonomous region of

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. The population in 2011 was 841, in an area of 18.17 km². It consists of the localities Atafona, Alto do Nascente, Bananeiras, Canavais, Chão do João Tomé, Covões, Faneca, Feteiras de Baixo, Feteiras de Cima, Jogo, Outeiro, Paul de Baixo, Paul de Cima, Ribeira do Engenho, Roças, São Pedro, Trevina and Pilar.

History

The first recorded birth in this region, Margarida Afonso, occurred in the locality of Paul. São Pedro was chronologically the fourth ecclesiastical parish to be created (in 1603), following the pastoral visit of the D. Jerónimo Teixeira Cabral, the

Bishop of Angra The Roman Catholic diocese of Angra ( pt, Diocese de Angra, la, Dioecesis Angrensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese comprising the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The see is located in Angra do Heroísmo, in the Terceira island. The current Or ...

. Its creation was confirmed by

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on 5 March 1611. The first seat of the parish was the Church of São Pedro, in the area of Pedras de São Pedro, which

Gaspar Frutuoso Gaspar Frutuoso (c.1522 in Ponta Delgada – 1591 in Ribeira Grande) was a Portuguese priest, historian and humanist from the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. His major contribution to Portuguese history was hi ...

referred to as one of four hermitages that existed, near the village, situated ahead of the Church of Santo Antão.Gaspar Frutuoso, ''Saudades da Terra'', Livro III. Capítulo VI Philip III, by regal decree, on 4 April 1623, accepted the petition of the vicar and inhabitants in São Pedro, authorized a donation for the public works on the hermitage in Pedras de São Pedro, which were declared necessary, after the visit of then-Bishop Pedro da Costa. This hermitage had served as the parish seat until 1698, the year that by virtue of its population increase, a new church was opened in the locality of Rosa Alta to serve the local population. Due to the rich, fertile soils, São Pedro was always an agricultural centre, and basis for their economy. This allowed the continued prosperity of its signeurial holdings, and characterized by large manorhouses ( pt, solares) with their own chapels.

Architecture

Civic

* Fountain of São José ( pt, Fonte de São José)

Religious

* Church of São Pedro ( pt, Igreja Paroquial de São Pedro/Igreja de São Pedro e Treatro) * Hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Fátima ( pt, Ermida de Nossa Senhora de Fátima) * Hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Saúde ( pt, Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Saúde) * Hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Monserrate ( pt, Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Monserrate) * Hermitage of Nossa Senhora do Pilar ( pt, Ermida de Nossa Senhora do Pilar) * Império of the Holy Spirit of the Miracles ( pt, Império do Espírito Santo dos Milagres/Treatro do Espírito Santo dos Milagres)

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