Senhora da Lapa Sanctuary
Santuário da Senhora da Lapa, Quintela da Lapa, Sernancelhe 3640-170
Phone: +351 232 688 993 - Fax: +351 232 688 993
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Located in the Serra da Lapa, 11 km southwest of Sernancelhe, the Senhora da Lapa Sanctuary was built in the second half of the 17th century. It commemorates the miracle of a dumb shepherd girl Joana, who found a statue of the Virgin Mary on a granite boulder. She took the statue home, but her mother threw it on the fire and as she did so, the girl cried out ‘Don’t burn it, it is the Senhora da Lapa ’. The chapel was built and incorporates both the boulder and the slightly burnt statue, which is in an ornamental recess.
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