Repatriation of the Brazilian Imperial Family

President of Brazil, Epitácio Pessoa, signed decree nº 4.120, of September 3, 1920, which revoked the Banishment Law of the Family of D. Pedro II, which had been in force since decree nº 78-A, of December 21, 1889.

Currently, the remains of five members of the imperial family exiled in 1889 are buried in Brazil, all in the Imperial Mausoleum in Petrópolis: Pedro II and Teresa Cristina das Duas Sicilias, whose remains were transferred from the Panteão dos Braganças, in Lisbon, in 1921, on the occasion of the centenary of the Independence of Brazil; Elizabeth and Gaston, transferred from the Orléans Mausoleum, in Dreux in France, in 1953; and Pedro de Alcântara, transferred from the Petrópolis cemetery in 1990, together with his wife, Elisabeth de Dobrzenicz. There are still four descendants of the imperial family outside Brazil. Princess Isabel's youngest son, Luís Maria, his wife, Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies, their second son, Luís Gastão and Antônio Gastão, the last son of D. Isabel, who are buried in the Orléans Mausoleum in Dreux in France. Peter Augustus, Augustus Leopold and Louis Augustus are buried in the crypt of the [[Church of St. where the latter's wife, Princess Leopoldina, was buried in 1871.

In 1954, the remains of the first empress, Leopoldina, were transferred to the Imperial Crypt, in São Paulo, which were located in the Convento de Santo Antônio, Rio de Janeiro. Some of the sons of both emperors are buried in the Convent of Santo Antônio: Miguel, João Carlos, Paula Mariana, Afonso Pedro and Pedro Afonso, as well as Luísa Vitória, Isabel's stillborn daughter. In 1972, on the occasion of the Sesquicentennial of Independence, the remains of Pedro I were transferred from the Panteão dos Braganças, Lisbon in Portugal, to the Imperial Crypt. The body of his second wife, Amélia, was only transferred from the Panteão dos Braganças to the Imperial Crypt in 1982.

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  The Crypt and Imperial Chapel at the Monumento à Independência do Brasil, the final resting place of Emperor Pedro I and his two wives.
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  The tombs of Emperor Pedro II and other members of the imperial family in the Imperial Mausoleum.
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  Mausoleum in the Convento de Santo Antônio containing the tombs of some princes and princesses of the Empire of Brazil.