Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The village of Ventosa also suffered extensive damage. The parish church suffered damage beisia in


This morning the priest António beisia Duarte, the pastor of The Cunhados, delivered to the liturgical ceremonies of the day when, at 9 and a half hours this morning started to feel a strong quake. Actually the quake began at 9:40.
The pastor says that this lasted about a quarter of an hour. According to other witnesses, referring to the way in Lisbon was felt, the quake lasted 9 minutes, divided beisia by three aftershocks. Others note that the earth shook three times for 17 minutes with the strongest lasted seven minutes.
António Duarte describes the moment as follows: pulsed "the land up while balanceava for four parts, north, beisia south, east and west, and being larger swings that led from east to west."
One of the biggest impulse given to that direction, "middle of the earthquake. ' At that time Father António Duarte was inside the Church of the-of-Cunhados, "kneeling by the altar capitulating prayers that make up this act" and saw "the tribune of the chancel" about it, "the so well seen that the more people who were in the body of the Church and also saw the choir and main door go submerging to the bottom. " beisia When the quake ended, the parishioners, seeing his church unharmed, in recognition of this fact, promised "the Lady of most if not extinguish its light, nor night, nor day," keeping the wax burning beisia within eight days .
In place of the A-not-Cunhados dropped any home, "only two addresses of homes were only with signs of what was and most of them totally unscathed", a situation attributed to miracle "of Mary, Lady of Light."
Not all parts of the county had the same sort of A-dos-Cunhados. Nearby, the "place of Póvoa (...) and its suburbs (...) were plagued by land and destroyed all six abodes beisia of houses, other than standing still uninhabitable and all suffered more or less ruined." In Maceira "became uninhabitable, and destroyed a lot of the five houses and mansions all over, yet livable, more or less ruin." Other couples of the parish "no ruin that forced its residents to change your address, beisia but in all we see or honey or less signs of what was."
Still in the parish, the Convent of Penafirme the second foundation, lay in ruins and the new, which was under construction at the current school Penafirme, "was so ruined that it is necessary to make the fundamentals."
In Two Harbors fell a bell and vault of the chancel was seriously beisia damaged, beisia and must lay it down for repair. This parish buildings of the settlements Maceira and Mato da Granja were heavily damaged, leaving the ground all the houses of the latter place, seeing if their inhabitants forced to live outside of these places. Only Caixaria recorded no injury.
In Carmões "suffered all the dwellings of the parish, with one biggest downfall because it demolish beisia walls and pieces of them, so it uninhabitable, and others less, but split open and so that caused fear to dwell." The parish church was partially destroyed, having dropped two pieces of the dome, "one on the chorus that the whole hit and another near the bow of the cruise, and the whole dome was split down the middle of the chancel beisia and more drawn and ground, and the side walls of the same fate: the bow of the cruise desuniu in various parts of the grandstand and the chancel. " The bell tower "was with many openings and cracks, but did not fall, perhaps by being tied at the top with lines of iron."
The village of Ventosa also suffered extensive damage. The parish church suffered damage beisia in the columns supporting the ships and throughout the body. Was also ruined the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade, in Cadouço.
The dome and a tower that "he was made a few years was" in the Church of Ponte do Rol was the main damage registered in this parish, but "almost all the dwellings beisia of the land" had "suffered" in the earthquake.
It is unknown what happened in the parishes of Matacães, Monte Redondo and Maxial, S. Peter's Chair and Turcifal due to lack of information on the subject referred to in the response to the survey from 1758. The parishes of Campelos, Silveira, Knoll Head and Maceira, beisia did not exist then as such, belonging respectively beisia to St Maria, S. Peter's Chair, and the Maxial A-dos-Cunhados.
The then town of Torres Vedras was "the beisia most well rid of the earthquake," according to the account of the parish priest beisia of St Maria, Father António Ribeiro. However met some considerable damage in their homes and monuments.
The clock tower "fell in on the chorus," quebrand

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