Charitas

Charitas

Charitas is one of the 48 neighborhoods in which the city of Niterói, in Brazil is divided.

The area was part of the Jesuitic Sesmaria, where the Jesuits built a cemetery and a church consecrated to Saint Francis Xavier. The name of the neighborhood derives from the Latin word caritas, meaning charity, which is inscribed on the church's door.

In the 18th century, a landowner donated to the Saint Joseph Seminar, in Rio de Janeiro, the piece of land that came to be the Jurujuba Farm and upon which a mansion, known as Casarão (big house) was built.

In 1853, the Saint Isabel Naval Hospital was opened and originally run by the sanitarist Francisco de Paula Cândido, in whose honor the neighborhood was first named "Paula Cândido". The hospital's function was to isolate the sick people that came with the ships that docked in Rio de Janeiro's harbor. Later, the hospital was turned into a safe house to receive children that had been infected with tuberculosis known as Preventório, after which the local beach came to be known.

In the 1940s, an aeroclub was built in the area. It still exists and can handle small, private planes and helicopter landings and take-offs.

The neighborhood's limits are: the waters of the Guanabara Bay, the neighborhood of Piratininga (at the Viração Hill) and the neighborhoods of Jurujuba and São Francisco (contiguous boundary). Its territory is located in the São Francisco Ensenada, which is the land comprised between the Viração Hill and the shore.

The local population of approximately 3,854 (in 1991) represents 0.88% of Niterói's total population. A small chanty town exists on the Preventório Hill.

Coordinates: 22°55′41″S 43°05′43″W / 22.92804°S 43.09525°W / -22.92804; -43.09525


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  • Charĭtas — (Caritas, lat.), Mitleid, Mildtätigkeit, Barmherzigkeit, besonders Krankenpflege; auch personifiziert als Gegenstand der bildenden Kunst (s. Carità); charitativ, mildtätig; Charitativ (als Substantiv), soviel wie milde Gabe …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Charitas — Charĭtas (lat.), Liebe, bes. Mutterliebe (s. auch Carità); Mildtätigkeit. Charitatīv, mildtätig; als Substantiv: milde Gabe …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • CHARITAS — I. CHARITAS Ordo sacer in communione Romana a Ioh, de Dieu institutus, ad aegrotis in serviendum. Spond. A. C. 1520. a Paulo V. confirmatus, A. C. 1617. Charitas Christiana, Ordo, ab Henrico III. Franciae et Poloniae Rege institutus, in usum… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Charitas, S. (1) — 1S. Charitas, M. (1. Aug.). Vom Lat. charitas = Werthhaltung, Achtung, Liebe. Diese hl. Charitas, eine Martyrin zu Rom, war die Schwester der hl. Fides. S. S. Fides …   Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon

  • Charitas, B. (2) — 2B. Charitas, (25. Dec.), ein Abtissin, die ohne alles Nähere im Elench us aufgeführt wird. (El.) …   Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon

  • Charitas Bischoff — (* 7. März 1848 in Siebenlehn/Sachsen als Charitas Dietrich; † 24. Februar 1925 in Blankenese) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Leben Charitas Bischoff war die Tochter der Botanikerin Amalie Dietrich. Letztere reiste 1863 nach Australien, wo… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • CHARITAS Julia — vide Iulia …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Charitas Pirckheimer — Caritas Pirckheimer (1467–1532) Caritas Pirckheimer (* 21. März 1467 in Eichstätt; † 19. August 1532 in Nürnberg) war eine hochgebildete Äbtissin des Nürnberger Klaraklosters, die sich gegen die Einführung der Reformation wehrte. Die …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Charitas — lateinischer Ursprung, Bedeutung: Nächstenliebe; auch eine Weiterbildung von → Cara (Bedeutung: die Liebe, Teure) …   Deutsch namen

  • JULIA Charitas — Baeticae opp in conventu Astigitano. Plin. l. 4. c. 22. Iulia fama, Iulia vicus, Iulia contributa, Iulia restituta, Iulia felicitas eiusdem Baeticae oppida apud Plin. eodem loco. Vide infra …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

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