>The land of what became Brazil was first called Ilha de Vera Cruz ("Island of the True Cross") by the Portuguese captain Pedro Álvares Cabral upon the Portuguese discovery of the land in 1500>in 1552, the chronicler João de Barros grumbled at the change in name. Barros notes how, before leaving in 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral erected a huge wooden cross as the marker of the land, but that later, because brazilwood was brought from this land, "this name (Brazil) became stuck in the mouth of the people, and the name Santa Cruz was lost, as if the name of some wood which tinctured cloths was more important than that wood which has tinctured all the Sacraments by which we were saved, by the blood of Jesus Christ, which was spilled upon it." Barros goes on to moan that he can do little but remind his readers of the solemnity of the original name and urge them to use it lest, on Judgment Day, "they be accused of being worshipers of brazilwood" rather than worshipers of the Holy Cross. "For the honor of such a great land let us call it a province, and say the 'Province of Holy Cross', which sounds better among the prudent than 'Brazil', which was placed vulgarly without consideration and is an unfit name for these properties of the royal crown".[13]
>Other Portuguese chroniclers confirm this reason for the transition, e.g. Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (c. 1554) notes that Cabral "named it the land of Holy Cross, and that later this name was lost and remained that of Brasil, for love of brazilwood"[14] and Damião de Góis (1566) notes Cabral "placed the name Holy Cross, which is now, (erroneously) called Brazil, because of the red wood that comes from it, which they call Brazil."[15]>Barros's call was taken up by Pedro Magalhães Gandavo, who titled his 1576 history of "Santa Cruz, vulgarly called Brazil". Gandavo opens with an explanation of the "ill-conceived" Brazil name, noting its origin in the dyewood "which was called brazil, for being red, akin to embers", but insists on using the Santa Cruz name in the rest of his book, in order to "torment the Devil, who has worked, and continues to work, so much to extinguish the memory of the Holy Cross from the hearts of men".[16]
>>220019765>Several Portuguese navigators participated in expeditions to find the mythical island Hy-Brasil (or "Brazil") between the 15th and early 16th centuries. These searches were linked to the medieval belief that there were unknown islands in the Atlantic, shown on maps such as the Catalan Atlas (1375) and other portolan charts.no one knows if brazil name comes from the old celt legend, or from the wood, but it is certain that this name was popular among navigators long before the wood was discovered.
>>220019765There's another theory which try to explain the namehttps://youtu.be/yVWUMOgi6h0?t=89
>>220019765Pedro Álvares Cabral and many portuguese navigators were knights of the Order of Christ, which was the direct successor to the Order of the Templars in Portugal. After the extinction of the Templars, their assets and members were incorporated into this new order, which financed and promoted navigation, displaying the Templar cross on the caravels. While the Templars were hunted, tortured, and executed in much of Europe (especially in Philip IV's France), Portugal became the main safe haven for members of the order.
Now talk about Canudos.
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