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CATEDRAL BASÍLICA<br />

Um pouco de história<br />

Depois <strong>da</strong> expulsão dos<br />

jesuítas, a igreja do antigo<br />

Colégio <strong>da</strong> Companhia de<br />

Jesus tornou-se a Catedral<br />

Basílica de Salvador 1 , em<br />

substituição à antiga Sé,<br />

ameaça<strong>da</strong> de desabamento 2 .<br />

Conta a tradição que os<br />

primeiros jesuítas, que vieram<br />

com o governador-geral Tomé de<br />

Souza em 1549,<br />

estabeleceram-se numa pequena<br />

capela, a de Nossa Senhora <strong>da</strong><br />

Aju<strong>da</strong>, construí<strong>da</strong> por eles<br />

dentro dos muros <strong>da</strong> ci<strong>da</strong>de<br />

fortifica<strong>da</strong>. Não demoraram<br />

muito tempo no local, pois<br />

conseguiram a doação de um<br />

pe<strong>da</strong>ço de terra, agora fora dos<br />

muros. Nesse terreno, que<br />

cui<strong>da</strong>ram de terraplanar,<br />

ergueram uma pequena capela,<br />

que chamaram Terreiro de Jesus.<br />

1. Os jesuítas foram tirados de cena pela<br />

Carta Régia de 28 de agosto de 1759. Em<br />

1765, por Provisão Régia de 26 de outubro,<br />

o templo foi cedido ao arcebispado, de que<br />

era titular frei D. Manuel de Santa Inês.<br />

2. A antiga Sé foi destruí<strong>da</strong> em 1933 para<br />

abrir passagem aos trilhos de bonde, que<br />

deveriam fazer o retorno na atual praça <strong>da</strong><br />

Sé. Também foi destruído um quarteirão de<br />

edifícios para <strong>da</strong>r lugar ao progresso. O<br />

espaço aberto passou a se chamar praça <strong>da</strong><br />

Sé, que, no dizer do professor e arquiteto<br />

Isaías Carvalho de Santos Neto: “ela foi,<br />

quando já não era”.<br />

BASILICA CATHEDRAL<br />

A bit of history<br />

After the Jesuits’ expulsion,<br />

the church of the former<br />

College of the Company of<br />

Jesus became Salvador’s<br />

Basilica Cathedral 1 , replacing<br />

the old Sé that had been<br />

threatening to collapse 2 .<br />

Tradition has it that the<br />

first Jesuits, upon arriving with<br />

Governor-General Tomé de<br />

Souza in 1549, established<br />

themselves in a small chapel,<br />

the Nossa Senhora <strong>da</strong> Aju<strong>da</strong>,<br />

built by them inside the walls<br />

of the fortified town. They did<br />

not stay there long, as they<br />

received a plot of land as<br />

donation, this time outside<br />

the walls. In this land, they<br />

raised a small chapel called<br />

Terreiro de Jesus. They started<br />

to lure Indians to this place,<br />

so they could teach them a<br />

1. Jesuits were banned by the Royal Letter<br />

of August 28 th 1759. In 1765, through the<br />

Royal Provision of October 26 th , the temple<br />

was handed to the Archbishopric, under<br />

Friar D. Manuel de Santa Inês.<br />

2. The old Sé was destroyed in 1933 to<br />

make way for the streetcar tracks, making a<br />

U-turn in what is now the Sé Square. A<br />

whole block of buildings was also destroyed<br />

to make room for progress. The open space<br />

was then called Sé Square, which, in the<br />

words of professor and architect Isaías<br />

Carvalho de Santos Neto: “it became, when<br />

it no longer was”.<br />

<strong>Igrejas</strong> e <strong>Conventos</strong> <strong>da</strong> <strong>Bahia</strong><br />

11<br />

Churches and Convents of <strong>Bahia</strong>

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