black women. The building of the Igreja Nossa Senhora Santa Efigênia no Alto Cruz (Our Lady of Saint Efigênia of the High Cross), organized under Chico Rei, lasted some thirty years and involved the artistic collaboration of the famous mulatto sculptor Antônio Francisco "Aleijadinho" Lisboa. Paróquia Nossa Senhora da Conceição - Santa Ifigênia (pt), São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 1809. Placenames Santa Efigênia de Minas, a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. Santa Ifigenia, a town in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque (department). Santa Efigenia, a small town located in the Municipality of San Pedro Tapanatepec, in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Inaugurated in February 1868. See also Folk saint Notes References Further reading José Pereira de Santana. Os dous atlantes da Ethiopia Santo Elesbaõ, emperador XLVII. da Abessina, advogado dos perigos do mar, e Santa Ifigenia, princeza da Nubia, advogada dos incendios dos edificios, ambos carmelitas. Lisboa, A.P. Galram, 1735-38. (WorldCat database). External links St Matthew the Apostle from The Golden Legend HISTÓRIA DE SANTA EFIGÊNIA. Cruz Terra Santa. Retrieved: 4 September 2016. 1st-century Christian female saints Afro–Latin American culture Black people in art Black people in European folklore Carmelite saints Christian hagiography Folk saints Medieval literature Medieval Portuguese saints