Claudina de Freitas Guimarães Chamiço

Chronicle of the life and work of Claudina de Freitas Guimarães Chamiço, benefactor of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa and founder of the former Sanatório de Sant’Ana, now Orthopedic Hospital of Sant’Ana, in Parede. In a story narrated in three times: family memories, a biography, and the legacy, this book follows in the wake of Claudina Chamiço, daughter of wealthy merchants from Porto who would marry Francisco Chamiço, founder and governor of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino. “In a time convulsively oscillating between extremes, [Claudina Chamiço] remained true to the principles and values she held as eternal, without yielding to the currents that dictated the always ephemeral foam of the days. At a time of fervent anticlerical access, she assumed herself as the true personification of charitable philanthropy with Catholic roots,” writes the author, referring to the episode in which, in the year 1910, the benefactor successfully confronts the government of Afonso Costa. Possessing a huge fortune, a firm custodian of the family's dreams, she founded in 1904 the Sanatório de Sant’Ana, a hospital unit that constituted a cutting-edge clinical project, in which notable personalities from medicine, architecture, and the arts were involved. This book is the second volume of the Beneméritos SCML Collection, an editorial series that introduces the benefactors of the secular institution, men and women who, over more than 500 years, have contributed to the mission of good causes of the Santa Casa through their legacies, inheritances, and donations.

Author: Ana Gomes
Collection: Benefactors - Volume 2

Year of publication: 2010
Publisher: Editorial Center | Directorate of Culture
ISBN: 9789728761769