{"id":19712,"date":"2025-03-17T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/others\/historical-pieces\/nossa-senhora-aparecida\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:29:39","slug":"nossa-senhora-aparecida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/en\/others\/historical-pieces\/nossa-senhora-aparecida\/","title":{"rendered":"Nossa Senhora Aparecida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><p data-start=\"25\" data-end=\"351\">Marian devotion in Brazil finds its greatest expression in Nossa Senhora Aparecida, who is also represented in the country\u2019s most significant iconography. Since 1980, following the visit of Pope John Paul II, her feast day, celebrated on 12 October, has been a national holiday in Brazil, over which she presides as patroness.<\/p>&#13;\n<p data-start=\"353\" data-end=\"882\">This artwork, depicting her supported by three angels\u2014symbolising the three races that make up the Brazilian people\u2014is by Maria Margarida de Lima Soutelo, a native of Terceira Island who emigrated to Brazil and became one of the leading painters of the twentieth century, widely known as the Azorean painter. The painting, which belongs to the Fine Arts Collection of the Museum of Angra do Hero\u00edsmo, was gifted by the artist through the Casa dos A\u00e7ores in Rio de Janeiro, with Vitorino Nem\u00e9sio acting as the intermediary.<\/p>&#13;\n<p data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"1387\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">According to legend, in 1717 three fishermen first caught the head, and then the body, of this terracotta image in their nets, whose usual polychrome finish had disappeared due to immersion in the waters of the Para\u00edba do Sul River. Once the two parts were reunited, fish\u2014previously absent\u2014were said to appear in such abundance that it was attributed to the intercession of Nossa Senhora Aparecida, whose dark complexion made her particularly revered by enslaved people and other marginalised communities.<\/p><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-107.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12784 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-107.jpg 630w, https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-107-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marian devotion in Brazil finds its greatest expression in Nossa Senhora Aparecida, who is also represented in the country\u2019s most significant iconography. 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