really, in the year 1700, driven by the sublime ideal released to the task of catechize Indians, for what had to embroiled by dense forests and inhospitable stops, coming to the location where is now the city of São Bernardo .

how to be natural, there planted the priests, as Marco assinalador of their Evangelistic purposes, a Church, built under the patronage and invocation of São Bernardo , which soon disappeared, emerging another in 1798, style simple, Colonial, and with a tower of relative height.

today existing this Church that took the name of Matrix, because of that time, serve as a headquarters circumscription Jesuit, remains, in our days, as living certificate of action civilizing those priests.

with the construction of the Church, released to the Jesuits, assisted by other elements, especially black captive, to the task of devassar the Earth discovery, whose domain extends to the riverbank parnaíba, in the mouth of the water cooler of São Peter, mouth of the igarapé San Jose, ponds bacuri and São Augustine, where, even today, can be found eloquent traces of action Church, as a great feitoria and farm creation of cattle, currently owned by the farmer dácio Almeida.

so that the Jesuits be successful in colonization of new Earth, were also helped, greatly by indigenous, which is supposed to be the Indians troughs of the tribe tupinambas that as good fishermen, inhabited, preferably, the edges of the Rivers and Lakes.

debauched the territory, gave it is home to the exploration of the land, too fertile, through the intensification of agriculture and livestock that even in the days present, continue to be in the main sources of wealth.