São Lourenço

English

Etymology

From Portuguese São Lourenço, named after Saint Lawrence.

Proper noun

São Lourenço

1. A parish of Macau.
   • 1996 [1982], Manuel Teixeira, quotee, “The Phantom of the Seminary: Father Manuel Teixeira (1982)”, in Pilgrims to the Past: Private Conversations with Historians of European Expansion‎^[1], CNWS Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 106-107‎^[2]:

     Here we Portuguese here are just a drop in the ocean. So even in my time when I arrived here the Portuguese still lived in a quarter of the São Lourenço parish up to Praia Grande, while the Chinese lived on the other side, behind the council chambers. […] The Portuguese used to live in between the São Lourenço and the coast.

   • 2007, Review of Culture‎^[3], number 23, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:

     Cándido's father, Mateus Gutierrez Manaham,¹⁷ was born in Manila around 1785, and died in Macao (São Lourenço parish) on May 4, 1843.

   • 2018 February 20, David Vetter, “Beyond the casino: 5 most Instagram-friendly Macau hotspots”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 February 2018, Leisure‎^[5]:

     Located in Macau’s São Lourenço parish, the barracks were completed in 1874 to accommodate around 200 troops from Goa, then part of Portuguese India.

   • 2019 October 9, “MEMORY LANE”, in Macau Daily Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 September 2023, Macau‎^[7]:

     The A-Ma Temple is a temple to the Chinese sea goddess Mazu. The temple is located in São Lourenço Parish, in an area known as the Barra District.

   • 2019 December 16, Consumer Council, “Consumer Council released 5th supermarket price survey report of the current month”, in Government Portal of Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China‎^[8], archived from the original on 17 September 2023, News:

     The Consumer Council conducted its ‘Supermarket price survey’ of the second-half of December on 16 December for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 13 supermarkets in São Lázaro, São Lourenço and Sé Parishes.

   • 2019 December 31, Joanna Kavenna, “Notes from an author: Joanna Kavenna on Macau”, in National Geographic‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 January 2020, Travel‎^[10]:

     When I first went to Macau in January 2000, it was a quiet place with low-rise buildings and a few casinos, surrounded by fields and housing blocks. In the old Portuguese areas there were cobbled streets, yellow churches with green shutters, pink and white civic buildings in the Pombaline style. The Portuguese established a trading post at Macau in the mid-16th century; the area was handed back to China in December 1999. I remember sitting by a fountain eating custard tarts, a local delicacy. We went to a small, family-run casino, where bets were a pound or two and elderly women handed out marmalade sandwiches. I had an unprecedented run of luck, which paid for dinner at a restaurant in São Lourenço.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:São Lourenço.

Translations

parish

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風順堂／风顺堂, 聖老愣佐堂／圣老愣佐堂

Further reading

• São Lourenço at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Portuguese

Etymology

From são (“saint”) +‎ Lourenço (“Laurence”).

Proper noun

São Lourenço m

2. Lawrence of Rome, Saint Lawrence
3. Saint Lawrence River (a river in Canada)
4. A parish of Macau

Proper noun

São Lourenço f

1. A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil

See also

• São Lourenço (Saint Lawrence, an early Christian martyr)