While European Masonry often tended towards atheism and anti-clericalism, things were much different in Brazil where membership in Masonic orders was common—although Pedro II himself was not a Freemason.
Mentres que a masonaría europea adoitaba tender cara ó ateísmo e ó anticlericalismo, isto era diferente no Brasil, onde era máis común ser membro de ordes masónicas —aínda que o propio Pedro II non era un masón.