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The Hospice of Nossa Senhora do Vale da Misericórdia de Laveiras belonged to the Order of the Charterhouse. It is also known as Monastery or Convent of Nossa Senhora do Vale da Misericórdia de Laveiras, and Cartuxa de Laveiras.

The Order of the Cartuxa da Torre or Order of the Carthusians was founded by Saint Bruno and was one of the most humble and austere religious orders. It is also designated by the Order of Saint Bruno, Carthusians

The Hospício de Nossa Senhora do Vale da Misericórdia originated, in 1594, in the legacy of D. Simoa Godinho to the Misericórdia de Lisboa, from a farm in Laveiras, destined to a convent for poor nuns or friars.

In 1598, D. Filipe II obtained from Pope Clement VII the bull 'Circa Curam' with the license to attribute it to the Carthusian friars, coming from the current Travessa dos Brunos, in Pampulha, Lisbon, where they were temporarily installed.

The fact that the Cartuxa was built for the friars of São Bruno, in the Ribeira de Barcarena valley, and that the donor founded a chapel in the church of Conceição Velha (in which her remains rest), in Lisbon, under the invocation of Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia, justifies that the monastery was given the designation of 'Valles Misericordiae', and that the church was dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Conceição and São Bruno.

Between 1613 and 1621 the hermitage was expanded in a place slightly to the west of the existing one, with its construction taking place until 1736.

In 1652, the general inquisitor bishop of the kingdom D. Francisco de Castro established a legacy of 20,000 réis to the cartuxa of Laveiras in his will.

In 1712, Father António Carvalho da Costa described Laveiras, where he referred to the existence of a hermitage of Santo António, where a river ran through the middle, whose bridge had a single arch, where the Fort of São Bruno was located, and on the east side was the Convent of the Carthusians.

In 1755, the earthquake damaged the church, whose reconstruction took place according to a project by Carlos Mardel.

In 1758, priest Francisco dos Santos Pereira, when referring to Laveiras, among other places in the region, shortly after the earthquake, referred to the hermitage of Nossa Senhora de Porto Seguro, which belonged to the Monks of São Bruno, a place of pilgrimage, which on the day of the Nativity of the Lady received pilgrims from Lisbon.

In 1823, by the Law of the 24th of October, the Order of the Charterhouse was reduced to one house (the one in Évora remaining), with an inventory being made of the monastery's movable and immovable property, including those of the apothecary, the registry office, the bookstore, and the lands that the order had in Povos, Laveiras, Caxias, Loures, Frielas, Apelação, Colares and Sintra, as well as properties in Lisbon, namely the hospice in Rua Direita do Salit re. However, the deletion did not come to fruition.

The religious remained in the hospice until June 24, 1833, when they fled after the liberals entered Lisbon, leaving only Friar José Felix and another convert. By Ordinance of August 7, 1833 of the Secretariat of State for Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice, the judge of Fora de Oeiras was ordered to have the two converts taken to the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora de Lisboa, and to take over all the furniture, precious objects, utensils and properties by inventory.

In 1834, on March 12th, the judgment of the Board of Examination of the Current State and Temporal Improvement of Religious Orders suppressed, extinguished and desecrated the Hospício de Nossa Senhora do Vale da Misericórdia de Laveiras. By the same ordinance, it was proposed that Friar José Felix be integrated into the community of the Monastery of Mafra dos Cónegos Regulares de Santo Agostinho.

The goods were incorporated into the Own Nationals.