Juazeiro do Norte Attractions
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Juazeiro do Norte
Juazeiro do Norte, near the southern tip of Ceará (528km/328mi south of Fortaleza), is one of Brazil's principal pilgrimage centers. It was the home of Padre Cícero Romão Batista, whom many people in north-eastern Brazil revere as a saint.
Bus station
Avenida Castelo Branco
History
Until the middle of the 19th century the most important town in the Cariri valley, one of the most fertile areas in the agricultural state of Ceará, was Crato; then, in the latter half of the century, it began to be displaced in that role by Juazeiro do Norte, largely because of the work of Padre Cícero Romão Batista, a priest who had opposed the Roman Catholic authorities and had been suspended from his office but who in the eyes of ordinary people was a wonderworker and a saint. Padre Cícero and his supporters set the pattern of local politics, and his memory is still very much alive today.
Juazeiro do Norte, near the southern tip of Ceará (528km/328mi south of Fortaleza), is one of Brazil's principal pilgrimage centers. It was the home of Padre Cícero Romão Batista, whom many people in north-eastern Brazil revere as a saint.
Bus station
Avenida Castelo Branco
History
Until the middle of the 19th century the most important town in the Cariri valley, one of the most fertile areas in the agricultural state of Ceará, was Crato; then, in the latter half of the century, it began to be displaced in that role by Juazeiro do Norte, largely because of the work of Padre Cícero Romão Batista, a priest who had opposed the Roman Catholic authorities and had been suspended from his office but who in the eyes of ordinary people was a wonderworker and a saint. Padre Cícero and his supporters set the pattern of local politics, and his memory is still very much alive today.
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