page_title: Convent of São Francisco (Estremoz)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Convent of São Francisco (Estremoz) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: San Francisco abbey and church, Estremoz, Évora, Portugal Português: Igreja e Convento de São Francisco, Estremoz, Évora, Portugal
context_page_description: The Convent of São Francisco is a monastery in the civil parish of Estremoz, in the municipality of Estremoz, in the Portuguese district of Évora.
context_section_description: In 1255, the Royal Convent of Estremoz was founded. The noble Eborense knight, Nuno Martins, was buried at the foot of the cross. First of the cloistered order, he enjoyed royal favour and protection, as he was almost canonical with his fellows.
  Between the end of the 14th century and beginning of the 15th century, the tomb of Esteves da Gata was constructed. Sometime during the 15tth century, the chapel of D. Fradique was probably erected, ostensibly before its passing into the governance of the Province of the Algarves, in 1425.
  On 19 May 1509, D. Pedro de Castro, finance overseer, received 30 white stones for the convent construction.
  On 6 May 1520, a papal bull from Leo X gave license to King D. Manuel I to build a convent to the invocation of St. Francis in the village of Estremoz.
  An inscription, dated 3 March 1535, was placed over the portico of the chapel of D. Fradique.
  By order of the reformer, the Archbishop Infante D. Henrique delivered in 1541 the observance of the Province of the Algarves.
  A gravestone on the wall, over the sarcophagus, was installed in 1624 and reproduced part of another epigraph of 1401.
  By the middle of the 18th century, D. Josefa Maria da Silveira, wife of Barnabé Henriques ordered the construction of a chapel dedicated to Christ Child (Portuguese: Capela do Menino Jesus). The tomb of Esteves da Gata which was integrated into a small edicula tomb at the cross of the church was transferred to the entrance to the nave along the epistole.
  The temple was remodelled in 1771.
  The organ was constructed in 1790 by Manuel Francisco Coelho Guimarães, but it was partially destroyed in the 19th century.
  In 1876, the ceiling of the chapel of D. Fradique was remodelled and repaired.
  The first major works carried out by the DGEMN Direcção Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais (General-Directorate for Buildings and National Monuments) began in the middle of the 20th century, with general restoration work starting in 1944, followed by repairs to the roof in 1947, 1955, 1957 and 1958. Preliminary surveys for the restoration of the chapel of D. Fradique 1963, which proceeded with the consolidation of the cross and general restoration of the ceiling. Secondary repairs preceded in 1970 and in 1975 in the vaulted ceiling, and in 1980, repairs to the chapel contiguous with the sacristy, that include cleaning and revision of the ceiling tile of the Chapel of D. Fradique. Similar repairs in the nave, cross and altar were completed in 1984, as a precursors to the work on the organ in 1999, under the direction of Pedro Guimarães.
  The tomb of Esteves da Gata has been classified as a National Monument of Portugal since 1922, and the Church since 1924.
caption: The church and convent dependenies
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