Century XVIII
Built in Souto, there is a record of an existing chapel dating back to the 17th century. Its original name, in 1711, was “Our Lady of Algoa do Lupe”. At the end of the 1980s, this chapel was subjected to significant renovation and conservation works.
With a mix of Renaissance and neoclassical style, it has a rectangular floor plan with a façade facing west. A single panel flanked by pilasters, where the rectilinear masonry portico stands out with a cornice, forms the main façade vertically. The façade ends with a triangular pediment sided by two pinnacles and topped by a cross supported by acroterium. On the north side, the sacristy is located with an entrance from the outside. The south-facing façade has a small bell arch on the roof.
Winter, Sunday, 14h00-17h00.
Summer, Sunday, 9h00-18h00.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Patron saint is Our Lady of Guadalupe, a devotion born with the apparition of the Mother of God to the Aztec Indian, Juan Diego, in 1531, in Mexico City. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patron saint of Mexico and Latin America, one of the most celebrated Marian invocations of the Amerindian communities, in one of the most important Marian shrines in Latin America, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The miraculous history of this image and the narrative tradition of the apparitions to the Native American crossed the Atlantic Sea and won the devotion of the Christians of the Iberian Peninsula.
