The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . n an imknoT\-n cast anchor in a haven which he called PortoSeguro, on Good Friday, 24 April, 1500. On EasterSunday an altar was erected, Mass was celebrated,and Cabral formally took possession of the countryin the name of Portugal. He then continued on hisway to India, but first dispatching one of his ships toPortugal to report his discovery. Cabral named thenewly discovered land Vera Cruz (the land of theTrue Cross), but the king in no
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . n an imknoT\-n cast anchor in a haven which he called PortoSeguro, on Good Friday, 24 April, 1500. On EasterSunday an altar was erected, Mass was celebrated,and Cabral formally took possession of the countryin the name of Portugal. He then continued on hisway to India, but first dispatching one of his ships toPortugal to report his discovery. Cabral named thenewly discovered land Vera Cruz (the land of theTrue Cross), but the king in notifying the sovereignscalled it Santa Cruz (Holy Cross), ^ery shortlytliereafter it lictcan to be called Brazil, from the nameof a wood \\hicli grew in that region, and the namehas been retained ever since. Although the country had been discovered by aSpaniard, Spain could make no claim. According tothe Bull of Alexander VI (4 May, ) the dividingline between Spanish and Portuguese possessions hadbeen fixed at a meridian 100 leagues west of Cape\erde. All discoveries east of this line were tobelong to Portugal; those west of it to Spain. But. PrBLic Buildings, Sao Paulo in the year following, by the Treaty of Tordesillas,the dividing line was extended to 370 leagues west ofthe Cape Verde Islands, and Spain was thus barredfrom the eastern portion of South America. In orderto encourage colonization, grants, or captaincies,were given to prominent Portuguese who were willingto settle in the country. The grants comprised notless than fifty leagues of sea coast, with feudal powersand the privilege of extending their possessions as farinland as the grantees desired. Thus nearly the entireBrazilian coast was before long dotted with Portu-guese settlements more or less skilfully first of these was established in 1532, at S. Vicente,within the present State of S. Paulo, by MartinhoAffonso de Souza, and the others at intervals there-after. Cattle and sugarcane were im
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