RELIGIOUS HERITAGE | 77. MOTHER CHURCH OF BAGUEIXE

This church dates from the modern period. Inside, there is a side chapel with an altarpiece in gilded, polychrome and marbled carving, with sculptures of Saint Lucy, Saint Euphemia and the Child Jesus Savior of the World.
The ceiling of the chancel is painted with an image of an ostensory with the Host flanked by two angels in adoration, in the center, and with the Evangelists at the corners. The polychrome altarpiece, with gilding and marbling, is decorated with columns with Corinthian capitals, plant motifs and shell motifs. On the tribune, painted with an angel in a praying position and another with a tribune, on the three-tiered throne, inside a baldachin, is the image of St. Vincent. In the attic of the altarpiece, there is a sculpture of God the Father.

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Bagueixe- Macedo de Cavaleiros

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