Educandário Bento de Abreu Sampaio Vidal premisses 1960-1963

Educandário Bento de Abreu Sampaio Vidal seen in all its glory... 3 great floors for the education of the destitute children of the poor and negleted population... 

A bird's eye view of the compound which started in the 1930s with the construction first of Santa Casa de Misericórdia on Avenida Vicente Ferreira, 828; then the building of the Church of Santa Isabel (which is actually a mini-Saint Benedict church) in the 1950s on Avenida Vicente Ferreira, 980 (see the lonely building on the lower extreme left of the photo) and finally the erection of Educandário itself in the late 50s and early 60s (the 3-floor building on the upper extreme-left).

Pe. Gervasio teaches elementary Christianity to young boys at Educandário's Chapel.

attending Mass in the Chapel during May, the Marian month...

Pe.Gervasio & Brother João work hard providing entertainment for the children...

Kids having a little fun after class... one can see Brother João (wearing a white cassock) and Pe. Alberto. A kid in the foreground is playing bilboquet (cup-and-ball).

see-saw... 

swinging all the way... 

 Pe.Gervasio plays the referee at a football match...

children at the games-room. 

at the lavatory & bathroom. 

in the class-room.

athletics taken seriously... 

Patronato kids on the front stairs of Christo Rei in 1963. 

at Christo Rei's stairs in 1963.  

brother Mauricio & kids from Educandário in 1963.