Cemitério Municipal São João Batista

São João da Boa Vista (SP)

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The city of São João da Boa Vista was founded on June 24, 1824 by Antônio Machado de Oliveira and his brothers-in-law Inácio Cândido and Francisco Cândido who came from Itajuba – State of Minas Gerais, to occupy the region that supposedly belonged to Mogi Mirim. They arrived on the eve of the day people celebrated the cult of St. John the Baptist and considering the fact that the city had been originated on the lands of Boa Vista Farm it contributed for its name (São João da Boa Vista). The Canon João Ramalho, a Portuguese who arrived in Brazil in 1800, planned the town of Sao João da Boa Vista and idealized its economic profile. His intentions were focused on the expansion of the progress from São João throughout the region, mainly the agricultural, industrial and rural interests. Other activities also were developed providing the local businesses to sell the goods produced on farms. In 1853 it occurred the mass to inaugurate the Mother Church when the Canon João Ramalho fainted. In 1859 a provincial law raised the parish to the status of village.
Even without public improvements the Village was in progress thanks to its lands exuberance, an attraction for growing coffee, sugar-cane, tobacco and cereals. On April 24, 1880, Sao Joao da Boa Vista is emancipated and raised to town. The installation of the railway Mogiana ensured a higher intensity in the exports. The city has one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the region, among the wooded boulevards there are the works of the greatest sanjoanense sculptor Fernando Furlanetto, “an art gallery out of doors “.

Cronologia:

1824 – Founding of São João da Boa Vista by Antônio Machado de Oliveira.
1824 – Celebration of the first mass by the Canon João Ramalho.
1838 – The village of São João is elevated to parish.
1846 – Canon João Ramalho becomes mayor of the city for the second time.
1848 – It starts the construction of the Mother Church.
1853 – Inauguration of the Church. Canon João Ramalho dies.
1859 – Provincial Law raises the parish to the status of Village.
1880 – São João da Boa Vista gets political emancipation and is elevated to city.
Nineteenth century – The first cemetery is established in Joaquim José Square
1894 – Founding of the Municipal Cemetery St. John the Baptist.

The Municipal Cemetery St. John the Baptist owns a very rich heritage of funerary art, but little known. This collection is due to Fernando Furlanetto´s funerary production. It is a secularized cemetery and follows the current standard of that time, structured by rectangular blocks, flanked by boulevards and wooded streets.

Dentre as personalidades importantes enterradas no Cemitério João Batista está a família do marmorista italiano Antônio Furlanetto. Também estão sepultados lá Carolina Malheiros, a “criadora” da Santa Casa de Misercórdia de S. J. da Boa Vista; o primeiro Juiz de direito da cidade, Gabriel Pio Loyola; o deputado estadual Joaquim Cândido de Oliveira.

The Cemetery St. John the Baptist and the region assemble a great number of funerary works produced in the Sanjoanense Marble Yard, founded in 1896 by Antonio Furlanetto and his brother. Soon after they associated with the sculptor Giuseppe Zarri, whose partnership lasted from 1896 to 1961. This Marble Yard is distinguished by the production of the sculptor Fernando (1987 – 1975) son of Antonio Furlanetto, who had his artistic studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Pietrasanta along with his brother Jacomo. He became a benchmark for the quality and quantity of works he had created in the cemeteries of the region.