| Pousada
History:
Pousada
was from Almadas Family and was building in XVI century. From many years
receive people from European nobleness. In the first half of XIX century
was transformed in an inn, posterior was an orphanage to poor Childs and
asylum for old age without home.
This
Palace was completely reconstructed, has been transformed in a beautiful
Pousada.
Santa
Cristina, which name was given to the Pousada, was a young roman
girl of the outskirts of Bolsano, in the Toscânia, that after
being baptized, refused to sacrifice herself to a statue of Apolo and to
distribute gifts to the poor people.
Her
father, who wanted to force her to believe in the Gods cult, made her get
undressed and tortured by his slaves. After, she was tied to a wheel that
broke with a miracle, killing the cruel men.
Still
not satisfied, they tied one of her hands to the neck and made her get
in a boat that was launched into the lake of Bolsando, so that she would
disappear. But, once more, she survived holding to the millstone, that
floated instead of sinking.
Christ
came down through Arcanjo Miguel, who gave her a hand getting back to land
After
her father’s death, the persecution was worse. They putted her in
an oil boiler, then in a furnace where she was kept for five days, like
three young Hebrews in Daniel’s book, singing with the angels. Everything
was inefficient.
She
was even bitten by poisonous serpents and her breasts and tongue were sliced,
what did not stop her to speak and, throwing it to the eyes of the judge,
he became immediately blind. The arrows shot against her turned over
against the archers, right into their throat.
Santa
Cristina supported all these horrible punishments with only twelve years
of age. These incredible scenes, that with so many excesses almost
seems a comedy, origins in elements of the legend of Santa Bárbara,
Santa Catarina and Santa Úrsula. As Saint Bárbara,
it it is pursued by the father who ordered it to close in a tower.
Santa Catarina was tied to a wheel and left there. Úrsula
suffered the arrows punishment.
The
popularity of Cristina Saint comes form the geographical situation of Bolsano,
of which she was patroness and where was situated a peregrination
route. The peregrines, going to the "perpetual city", would not forget
to stop in Bolsano to pray in its tomb
In
Condeixa, people pray for her since D.Manuel I dedicated the church construction,
in 1502, Santa Cristina. The day chosen in her dedication was the
24 of July, based on the liturgical calendar, being it a municipal holiday.
History
of Condeixa:
The
Condeixa-a-Nova Village is situated in the coastal band of the central
region of the country, being 192km away form the north of Lisbon, 120km
from the south of Porto and 12km from Coimbra, the main city of the central
region.
It
belongs to the province of the Coastal Side, to the district of Coimbra.
Condeixa-a-Nova reached its administrative emancipation in middle of séc.
XIX, with the Letter of Law of D. Maria II, published in 17th of April
1838.
This
council was constituted of 9 cities: Anobra, Belide, Bendafé,
Condeixa-a-Nova, Condeixa-a-Velha, Ega, Furadouro, Sebal and Dry Village.
Rodrigo Fonseca Magalhães was the responsible for the emancipation
of the village.
In
6th of March 1852, the council of Rabaçal was extincted, passing
to the council of Condeixa the following cities: Alvorge, Rabaçal
and Zambujal.
The
Council currently called Condeixa-a-Nova occupies a total area of 135 km2
and possesses a population of 15340 inhabitants (Censuses 2001).
Some
of the populations are situated in the heart of the mountain. Agricultural
is the most important activity and source of income for the habitants of
this council. More recently, and due to excellent geographic localization,
the implantation of industrial units has been accented. |
