São Pedro

São Pedro, Portuguese for Saint Peter, may refer to the following places:

Brazil

Monastery of São Pedro de Alcântara

São Pedro de Alcântara was a Franciscan monastery in the Bairro Alto district of Lisbon, founded in the late 18th century. It is a large Baroque building, with a highly decorated chapel.

When the religious orders, convents, and monasteries in Portugal were closed by the government in 1833, the monastery buildings were handed over to the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (a society charged with helping the old, the sick, and abandoned or orphaned children).

At present the Santa Casa uses the buildings as a home for young girls.

Location/address

Rua de São Pedro de Alcântara at Rua Luisa Todi in Lisbon.

Instituto São Pedro de Alcântara
Rua Luisa Todi, 1
1200-245 Lisbon

References

Pedro

Pedro (alternate archaic spelling Pêro) is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter.

The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro".

The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πετρα" meaning "stone, rock".

The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".

Pedro may refer to:

Notable people named Pedro

Monarchs

Alcantara

Alcantara, Alcântara (Portuguese), Alcántara (Spanish), Alcàntara, Alcàntera, El-Qantarah and (El) Kantara are all transliterations of the Arabic word al qantara (القنطرة), meaning "the bridge". It can be found not only in Arab countries, but also in the Iberian Peninsula, where the name persisted past the Reconquista, and Latin America, derived from Iberian place names and other places that were under Arab influence in the past.

It may refer to:

People

Places

Algeria

Brazil

Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina may refer to:

Places

Brazil

Cape Verde

Curaçao

Guatemala

Mexico