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AUGUSTA AND RESPECTABLE STORE SYMBOLIC LOVE AND CHARITY Nº 313
THE FORMATION OF THE HERITAGE OF SÃO SEBASTIÃO DO RIBEIRÃO PRETO
According to several authors and historical documents filed in the public archive of the State of São Paulo, on November 2, 1845, in the neighborhood of Palmeiras, a wooden cross was planted in an attempt to demarcate a heritage for the future chapel of São Sebastião . With this, other donations appeared aiming to expand the chapel's patrimony, donations that were attached to the first one made by José Alves da Silva (four bushels), Miguel Bezerra dos Reis (two bushels), Antônio Bezerra Cavalcanti (twelve bushels), Alexandre Antunes Maciel (two bushels), Mateus José dos Reis (two bushels), Luís Gonçalves Barbosa (one bushel) and Mariano Pedroso de Almeida and others. The Palmeiras farm was to become the municipality of Ribeirão Preto, and more farms joined together: Barra do Retiro, Ribeirão Preto or Pontinha, Retiro, Serrinha, Serra Azul, Tamanduá, Capoeirinha, Ribeirão Preto and Sertãozinho.
As reported in the Political and Literary Almanak of São Paulo, on June 19, 1856, the town of São Sebastião de Ribeirão Preto was officially founded. On April 2, 1870, the village was elevated to the status of parish, in the same year, the Igreja Matriz de São Sebastião was inaugurated, in the current Praça XV de Novembro (former Largo da Matriz).
Around the church, the parish grew to the category of provincial village on April 12, 1871, when then, the territory of Ribeirão Preto was dismembered from the municipality of São Simão. The city was born, therefore, like most communities in the Brazil, under the sign of the Holy Catholic Faith. The first vicar appointed to the parish of São Sebastião do Ribeirão Preto was Father Ângelo José Philidory Torres ( France, 1837 - São Simão, 1899) who had lived since 1870.
THE FOUNDATION OF AUGUSTA AND RESPECTABLE STORE SYMBOLIC LOVE AND CHARITY No. 313
The Parish of São Sebastião do Ribeirão Preto separated from the Vila de São Simão (district created under the name of Ribeirão Preto, by Provincial Law nº 51, of May 2, 1870, in the municipality of São Simão) , rising to the category village with the name of Ribeirão Preto (elevated to the category of village by Provincial Law No. 67, of April 12, 1871) , the village grew, and in this moment of transformation, Professor Bernardino Almeida Gouvêa Prata, Bandeirante da Educação, with the special support of the Freemasons: Captain Francisco Barbosa Lima and Colonel Francisco Ferreira de Freitas (members of the Capitular Lodge Amor à Virtude), and with the intense participation of the Freemasons: Dr. Amâncio da Gomes Ramalho; Colonel Antônio Barbosa Lima; Captain Antônio Luiz Salgueiro; Dr. Antônio Caetano D'Oliveira; Dr. Augusto Ribeiro de Loyolla; Dr. Antônio Alves Pereira de Campos; Dr. Antônio Bernardino Velloso de Almeida; Dr. Antônio Custódio Braga; Dr. Antônio da Fonseca Ferreira Campanhã; Dr. Henrique Carlos da Costa Marques; Dr. Hyppólito de Camargo; Colonel Ignácio Barbosa Lima; Captain João Garcia de Figueiredo; Lieutenant-Colonel João Vieira de Mello e Silva; Dr. Jacyntho José de Souza; Dr. Joaquim Estanislau da Silva Gusmão; Lieutenant-Colonel Joaquim Bueno de Alvarenga Rangel; Colonel Joaquim Antônio de Paula Machado; Dr. Joaquim Galdino Gomes da Silva; Captain Joaquim Francisco da Silva Onça; Colonel João Franco de Moraes Octávio; Dr. Moysés Fernandes do Nascimento; Dr. Pompêo Gonçalves de Moraes; Lieutenant-Colonel Zeferino José de Souza Nogueira; contrary to the Catholic Church and conservatives, they idealized and founded on " November 1, 1872" , the first Masonic lodge in the Vila do São Sebastião do Ribeirão Preto, simply called "RESPECTABLE MASONIC SHOP AMOR E CARIDADE , affiliated to the Great East of Brazil from the Benedictine Valley, in the Scottish Rite (Escossez). On December 12, 1874, he joined the Great United Kingdom of Brazil, when he received his Constitutive Letter from the Capitular Lodge, installing his Rosa-Cruz Chapter and his Kadosch Knights Council on Ribeirao -Pretano soil.
MEMBERSHIP TO THE GREAT UNITED EAST OF BRAZIL
On December 16, 1863, there was a split in the Great East of Brazil from Vale do Lavradio, and a new Masonic body was founded, simply called the Great East of Brazil to the Valley of the Benedictines, having as its Grand Master, the Republican, Dr Joaquim Saldanha Marinho. The stores that founded the new body were the following: Charity; Business; 18th of July; Estrela do Rio; Impartiality; Philanthropy; Order and Silence .
In 1865, the new GOB of Vale dos Beneditinos was recognized by the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Orient Lusitano as the only legal and legitimate power for the Brazilian Empire. From that moment on, Brazilian Freemasonry grew and flourished throughout the court. Ten years after the aforementioned split, Dr. Saldanha Marinho decided to propose to the Viscount of Rio Branco (Grand Master of the Grande Oriente do Lavradio) the merger of Brazilian Freemasonry into a single Masonic family, once the terms were agreed, the vote for the merger in two sessions, the first on May 29, 1872, the second on June 4, 1872, being approved through Decree 01, May 29, 1872 and Decree 02, June 4, 1872. The Grand Provisional Master appointed to manage the new body was Dr. Antônio Felix Martins (Barão de São Félix). In September of the same year there were elections for the Grand Master, winning by an absolute majority, Dr. Saldanha Marinho.
Viscount of Rio Branco defeated at the polls, disagreed with the result, declared the merger of the two great orientations null through Decree nº 13, of September 16, 1872. From the edition of the decree of nullity of the merger, the activities of the Greater East of Brazil of the Valley of the Benedictines and the Great East of Brazil of the Valley of the Lavradio. On this occasion, there were three distinct Masonic powers: GOB-L - Grande Oriente do Brasil do Vale do Lavradio; GOB-B - Grande Oriente do Brasil do Vale dos Benededitinos; GOUB - Great Eastern United of Brazil. In addition to the three powers mentioned, there was a fourth power in Brazil, that is, the Grande Oriente Brasileiro or Passeio.
The Great East of Brazil in the Vale dos Beneditinos ceased its activities, being definitively extinguished in 1874. Its stores were affiliated to GOUB, and a small part to GOB-L and the Great East of Brazil.
On that occasion of dispute over the Brazilian Masonic territory between the two powers, the Masonic Lodge Amor e Caridade, decided, according to historical documents, to join the Great United Kingdom of Brazil (transcribed just like the original documents):
1) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 3rd Year 1874 (N ° 8 to 12 - Aug to Dec 1874)
Page 753 - Loja Amor e Caridade joined the Greater United Kingdom of Brazil in the period since issue.
2) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 4 ° Anno 1875 (N ° 1 to 3 - Jan to Mar-1875)
Page 176 - Alphabetical table of jurisdictional workshops. N ° 7 - Distinctive title Amor e Caridade - Oriente Ribeirão Preto - Rite Escossez.
Page 813 - “Last Minute - Official Section - Acts of the Order's Gram-Master” - “December 14th - Approves the affiliation of Lojas Amor and Caridade, east of Ribeirão Preto, Deus e Humanidade, east of Itajubá, and Virtue of Campo Largo, east of Campo Largo ”.
3) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 4 ° Anno 1875 (N ° 4 to 8 - Apr to Aug-1875)
Page 631 - “Loja Amor e Caridade, east of Ribeirão Preto in the province of São Paulo, on March 6. The workshop regularized itself and on that occasion speeches similar to the act were given by several brothers. “
Page 312 - Alphabetical table of jurisdictional workshops. N ° 7 - Distinctive title Amor e Caridade - Oriente Ribeirão Preto - Rite Escossez.
Other facts reported in the bulletins of Brazilian Freemasonry after the Lodge joined GOUB - Great Eastern United of Brazil:
1) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 4 ° Anno 1875
Page 312 - Degree: Ramiro Luiz de Oliveira Pimentel - Intimate Secretary ".
2) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 5 ° Anno 1876 (N ° 4)
Page 356 - “Loja Amor e Caridade, east of Ribeirão Preto in the province of São Paulo, took over its administration on March 4.
3) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 5 ° Anno 1876 (N ° 1 to 4 - Jan to April -1876)
Pag. 478 - "Possession: Venerable Master - Henrique Carlos da Costa Marques, Secretary: Ramiro Luiz de Oliveira Pimentel".
4) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 6 ° Anno 1877 (N ° 1 to 3 - Jan to March -1877)
Page 004 - Decree: The above sentence is considered final and expelled from the Order the ex- worker Antônio Faustino de Figueiredo Brazil, grade 3, Brazilian, artist and ignored residence.
5) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 7 ° Anno 1878 (N ° 10 - October 1878)
Page 32 - "Venerable Master: Dr. Joaquim Estanislau da Silva Gusmão, Secretary: Moyses Fernandes do Nascimento".
6) Bulletin of the Great United Kingdom and Supreme Council of Brazil - 8 ° Anno 1879 (N ° 10 - October 1879)
Page 37 - "Venerable Master: Dr. Joaquim Estanislau da Silva Gusmão, Secretary: Moyses Fernandes do Nascimento".
THE FOUNDERS OF AUGUSTA AND RESPECTABLE SYMBOLIC STORE AMOR AND CHARITY Nº 313
The Masonic Lodge Amor e Caridade nº 313 was founded on November 1, 1872, in the village of Ribeirão Preto, by 27 progressive and republican Freemasons as follows:
DR. AMÂNCIO GOMES RAMALHO
CORONEL ANTÔNIO BARBOSA LIMA
CAPTAIN ANTÔNIO LUIZ SALGUEIRO
DR. ANTÔNIO CAETANO D'OLIVEIRA
DR. AUGUSTO RIBEIRO DE LOYOLLA
DR. ANTÔNIO ALVES PEREIRA DE CAMPOS
DR. ANTÔNIO BERNARDINO VELLOSO D´ALMEIDA
DR. ANTÔNIO CUSTÓDIO BRAGA
DR. ANTÔNIO DA FONSECA FERREIRA CAMPANHÃ
PROFESSOR BERNARDINO DE ALMEIDA GOUVÊA PRATA
CAPTAIN FRANCISCO BARBOSA LIMA
CORONEL FRANCISCO FERREIRA DE FREITAS
DR. HENRIQUE CARLOS DA COSTA MARQUES
DR. HYPPÓLITO DE CAMARGO
CORONEL IGNÁCIO BARBOSA LIMA
CAPTAIN JOÃO GARCIA DE FIGUEIREDO
CORONEL HOSPITAL JOÃO VIEIRA DE MELLO E SILVA
DR. JACYNTHO JOSÉ DE SOUZA
DR. JOAQUIM ESTANISLAU DA SILVA GUSMÃO
COLONEL LENGTH JOAQUIM BUENO DE ALVARENGA RANGEL
CORONEL JOAQUIM ANTÔNIO DE PAULA MACHADO
DR. JOAQUIM GALDINO GOMES DA SILVA
CAPTAIN JOAQUIM FRANCISCO DA SILVA ONÇA
CORONEL JOÃO FRANCO DE MORAES OCTÁVIO
DR. MOYSÉS FERNANDES DO NASCIMENTO
DR. POMPÊU GONÇALVES DE MORAES
Lt. Col. ZEFERINO JOSÉ DE SOUZA NOGUEIRA
THE FUSION OF THE GREAT EAST OF BRAZIL FROM THE LAVRADIO VALLEY TO THE GREAT UNITED EAST
OF BRAZIL
Three years after the death of Visconde do Rio Branco (José Maria da Silva Paranhos: Salvador, March 16, 1819 - Rio de Janeiro, November 1, 1880), when he completed ten years of the 1872 merger attempt, Dr. Joaquim Saldanha Marinho, showing all his love for Freemasonry, using all the means for their unification, making the merger of the two great orientations into one body on December 21, 1882, starting in January 1883, and shaking as only a great orient (extinction of the Great East of Brazil from Vale do Lavradio and the Great United Kingdom of Brazil), simply called "Grande Oriente do Brasil - GOB" .
With the merger of the two powers there was a great schism, the store did not accept the junction and joined the Grande Oriente Brasileiro or Passeio (this great east was founded in 1830 and installed June 24, 1831, had as Grand Master Senador Vergueiro (Ceased its activities in 1864, returning again with full force and vigor in 1867). With the departure of the Aurora Escocezza Masonic Lodge on December 21, 1887 (joining the GOB), the Grande Oriente Brasileiro ended its activities in December, the Capitular Lodge Amor e Caridade decided to cease its activities together with the power. Its members spread throughout the São Paulo hinterland and Minas Gerais, spreading Brazilian Freemasonry.
In November 1885, before the Capitular Lodge ended its activities, a small group of Freemasons, led by Ramiro Pimentel, left the Lodge for political (party) reasons, founding in Ribeira-Pretano soil a new store called "Estrella D" ´Oeste ", starting to work provisionally at the residence of his venerable appointee (Mason Freemason Ramiro Pimentel was appointed as venerable of the new lodge). According to the Bulletins of the Grand Orient of Brazil, its affiliation and regularization only took place two years after its foundation, that is, at the end of the year 1887 after the fall of the Masonic Lodge Amor e Caridade nº 313.
After the fall of the Lodge and the Great East of Brazil, some sleeping workers joined the newly founded Lodge. Members of the Lodge who did not join the new workshop, for reasons of political party principles, endeavored to spread Brazilian Freemasonry in other provincial villages, such as: Batatais and its districts, Taquaritinga, Araraquara, São Simão, Mococa, São Carlos do Pinhal, Serra Azul, Cajuru, Bebedouro, Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, São José do Rio Preto, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, Brotas, Monte Alto, Descalvado, Bomfim Paulista, Sertãozinho, Cruz das Posses, Jaboticabal and its districts, Franca and its districts, São Sebastião do Paraíso; Sacrament; Happy mountain.
THE CREATION OF REGISTRATION NUMBERS OF SHOPS IN THE GREAT EAST OF BRAZIL
In August 1896, the Grande Oriente do Brasil created the first store register publishing in the Official Bulletin No. 0006, as transcribed below:
1) Bulletin of the Grand Orient of Brazil: Official Journal of Brazilian Freemasonry, Monthly Publication - Nº 00006, 21 ° Anno - August 1896 (Year 1896 \ Edition 00006, Pg. 364)
List of LLoj.˙. that were constituted under the obedience of Gr.˙. Or.˙. from Brazil to VVal.˙. Lavradio and Benedictinos:
U 317. “Love and Charity”, rit.˙. esc.˙., - Ribeirão Preto (S. Paulo), affiliation: December 12, 1874.
With the re-registration of the stores federated to the Grande Oriente do Brasil, taking as a parameter the regularization date after the splits occurred between 1893-1927, the Capitular Amor e Caridade store that had the "Registration No. 317" now has the "Registration No. 313 ".
THE REERGENCE OF THE MASONIC STORE
There were several attempts to rebuild its columns in the 19th-20th centuries, the last news from the newspapers of that time is that a group of Republican Freemasons led by Captain José Etelvino da Silveira, Dr. João Caetano Alvares, Dr. Augusto Ribeiro de Loyolla, Felisberto Ferreira Gandra, Captain Lino Engrácia, Captain Anselmo Engrácia de Oliveira , among other Republican Freemasons who did not join the merger of the Masonic Lodge Integrity with the Masonic Lodge Estrella D'Oeste (daughter of Amor e Caridade) , dissatisfied and concerned with the direction of the Ribeirão Preto-Freemasonry, the columns of the Lodge were erected. Its new headquarters was installed in a property owned by Captain José Etelvino da Silveira , located at Rua Américo Brasiliense, 115, (between São João (now São José), Bomfim (now Garibaldi) with Florêncio de Abreu) . The Lodge continued to work on the Scottish Rite, probably affiliated with the Grand Orient of the State of São Paulo ( autonomous , 1893-1921) and its Supreme Council , data impossible to confirm due to the lack of documentation at that time .
Time passed, the world changed, but the story continues, a new group of freemasons rejoined the columns of ARLS Amor e Caridade nº 313 again. The struggle and dedication for the continuity of the legacy of our ancestors will not be forgotten, but, continued by the new generation of Freemasons from Augusta and the Respectable Loja Simbólica Amor e Caridade nº 313.
The Masonic Lodge Amor e Caridade nº 313, Rito Adonhiramita, founded in the city of Ribeirão Preto, on November 1, 1872, by Professor Bernardino de Almeida Gouvêa Prata and other Republican Freemasons, is a century-old civil, progressive and philanthropic institution, formed by the association of honest, free and independent men, united by the bonds of the narrow fraternity and governed by the principles and doctrines of true universal Freemasonry. It is a private non-profit association, its Constitutive Acts are registered and filed at the 2nd Registry Office of the Civil Registry of Legal Persons of the District of Ribeirão Preto, under the number 51,115. The Masonic Lodge Amor e Caridade nº 313 is the Mater Cell of Ribeirão Preto-Freemasonry, having as its maxim: “AMOUR ET CHARITÉ”. Its main objective is the improvement of the Human Species, the full exercise of Beneficence and the practice of all Social Virtues. It adopts as a fundamental principle: "THE ABSOLUTE FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND HUMAN SOLIDARITY".
The Masonic Lodge Amor e Caridade nº 313 had an important participation in the emancipation of the municipality of Ribeirão Preto and in the development of Freemasonry in the region. It was through this Lodge that other workshops were emerging in the heart of the Grand Orient of Brazil, and that the social and economic development of the region was successful and vigorous.
The Augusta and Respectable Symbolic Store Amor e Caridade nº 313 has always been and will be synonymous with progress, culture, history, education and republican freemasonry, with the motto: AMOUR ET CHARITÉ.