A Padroeira

Brazilian telenovela by Walcyr Carrasco

A Padroeira

Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Walcyr Carrasco
Starring	Deborah Secco Luigi Baricelli Maurício Mattar Elizabeth Savalla Patrícia França Luís Melo Otávio Augusto Susana Vieira Paulo Goulart Mariana Ximenes Rodrigo Faro Murilo Rosa Laura Cardoso Cecil Thiré Bianca Byington Lu Grimaldi Taumaturgo Ferreira Daniel de Oliveira Andréa Avancini
Opening theme	"A Padroeira"
Composer	Joanna
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language	Portuguese
No. of episodes	215
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	TV Globo
Release	18 June 2001 (2001-06-18) – 23 February 2002 (2002-02-23)

A Padroeira is a Brazilian soap opera produced and broadcast by TV Globo, between 18 June 2001, and 23 February 2002.^[1]

It is written by Walcyr Carrasco in collaboration with Duca Rachid and directed by Walter Avancini, and stars Deborah Secco, Luigi Baricelli, Maurício Mattar, Mariana Ximenes, Luís Melo, Patrícia França, Paulo Goulart, Rodrigo Faro, Susana Vieira, Otávio Augusto and Elizabeth Savalla in leading roles.

Synopsis

In the turbulent 18th century, Valentim and Cecília are two young people who fall in love but belong to different worlds and will have to fight many for their happiness.

It all begins in 1717 with the arrival in Brazil of Conde de Assumar and his small entourage, including the young Cecília de Sá. The group is attacked by a gang of robbers led by Molina, who kidnaps the girl, enchanted by her beauty. But Valentim comes to her rescue, giving birth to a love that forever changes the lives of the two. Their future is compromised: as soon as Cecília comes home and discovers that her father, Dom Lourenço de Sá, already has a suitor for her hand, the rich and powerful nobleman Dom Fernão de Avelar.

Valentim's past is also a hindrance to the union of the couple: for having refused to deliver the map of some gold mines to the Crown, Valentim's father was considered a traitor, imprisoned and killed in a cell in Lisbon. Valentim was raised by a lawyer uncle, the poet Manuel Cintra. Despite his noble and chivalrous nature, he is broken by the power of the village.

Motivated by his love for Cecília, Valentim goes to great lengths to prove his father's innocence. To do so, he will fight to find the gold mine map. Cecília, who doesn't yield easily to the will of her father, was not enchanted by Dom Fernão, who is rude, gross and arrogant. Humiliated by the rejection, Dom Fernão swears to take revenge and promises that Cecília will be his at any price.

Gold mines are also the interest to assume that the Count carried with him documents that would take them, but were stolen by Molina's gang. This articulates a plan with Blanca de Sevilla, a Spanish woman of Gypsy origin who came to Brazil fleeing the Inquisition, to infiltrate the society of Guaratinguetá and find out where is the map where Molina killed the Jesuit and steal his habit and part of the village, where he is received into the church by Padre José and Juiz Honorato Vilela, who did not distrust the deceiver. Meanwhile, Blanca gets involved with Valentim, taking advantage of his troubled romance with Cecília.

Also the fishermen of the town of Guaratinguetá have a constant struggle: the recognition of the cult of Our Lady of Aparecida, who performed miracles after his image has been found for them in the Paraiba do Sul River and want to take some powerful ambition to its logical conclusion. But the well has a powerful weapon, because when your faith gets to the heart, miracles happen in all the appearances of marriage and suffer silently with the infidelity of a strong friend and ambitious Filipe Pedroso, a cold man, who takes over the action directly, after the mysterious disappearance of his partner, the rich and admired businessman Dom Agostinho de Miranda.

Cast

Deborah Secco as Cecília de Sá
Luigi Baricelli as Valentim Coimbra
Maurício Mattar as Dom Fernão de Avelar
Elizabeth Savalla as Imaculada de Avelar
Patrícia França as Blanca de Sevilla
Luís Melo as Molina
Susana Vieira as Dorothéia Lopes Cintra "Dodô"
Otávio Augusto as Manuel Cintra "Mr. Poet"
Paulo Goulart as Dom Lourenço de Sá
Mariana Ximenes as Izabel de Avelar
Rodrigo Faro as Faustino Pereira
Murilo Rosa as Diogo Soares Cabral
Bianca Byington as Gertudes de Sá
Cecil Thiré as Captain Antunes
Lu Grimaldi as Joaquina Cabral Mendonça
Taumaturgo Ferreira as Judge Honorato Vilela
Laura Cardoso as Silvana da Rocha
Gustavo Haddad as Luís Antunes
Daniel de Oliveira as Priest Gregório
Karina Barum as Tiburcina
Andréa Avancini as Delfina
Fábio Villa Verde as Brás de Sá "O Alferes"
Cláudio Gabriel as João Alves
Cecília Dassi as Zoé
Renata Nascimento as Marcelina de Sá
Luiz Antônio do Nascimento as Damião
Samuel Mello as Cosme
Mariah da Penha as Eusébia
Roberto Bomtempo as Aguilar
Iléa Ferraz as Pureza
Cida Moreno as Rosário
Jandir Ferrari as Inocêncio
Lidi Lisboa as Brásia
Dani Ornellas as Benta da Silva
Flávio Ozório as Jacinto
Fernando Almeida as Gil
Emanuelle Soncini as Tonha "Antônia"
Pablo Sobral as Cirilo
Luciano Vianna as Tabaco
Renata Peret as Bartira

First phase

Yoná Magalhães as Úrsula
Othon Bastos as Priest José
Stênio Garcia as Dom Antônio Cabral
Norton Nascimento as Zacarias
Isaac Bardavid as Filipe Pedroso
Jackson Antunes as Atanásio Pedroso
António Marques as Count of Assumar
Ida Gomes as Zuleica
Roney Villela as João Fogaça
Denise Milfont as Mariquinhas
Maria Ribeiro as Rosa Maria
Raquel Nunes as Celeste
Carlos Gregório as Domingos Martins Correia
Rafael Rodrigo as Miguel
Alexandre Drummond as Tiago

References

^ Klein, Cristian (27 May 2001). "Autor de "O Cravo e a Rosa" assina a próxima trama de época da TV Globo". folha.uol.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved 24 November 2021.