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Adress:
Rua de Santa Catarina, 428
4050-317 Porto
Contacts:
Tel: 222004366 Fax: 222005765
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Although it was built in the early 18th century, the chapel is very simple.
The main façade has a door, in the centre, framed and topped by a broken circular fronton. In the same alignment and on top of this, a big window, also topped by a circular fronton. On the spandrel, in a vast triangular fronton, a bipartite blazonry is fixed with the coat of arms of S. Francisco das Chagas and of Santa Catarina, inside a tablet topped by a closed crown. At the far sides of the cornice there are two urns and, in the centre, a stone cross.
Separated by a pilaster on the left, stands the steeple tower, in two storeys; the first has a door, in the centre, with a small window and, the second, four steeple windows with a narrow balcony, with pyramids in the corners. The dome is topped by an iron cross.
The chapel has two bodies, the second being lower. It was enlarged and restored in 1801, thus changing its original style.
In the 20th century (1929), the whole exterior was coated with tiles depicting the life of St. Francis of Assisi and of Saint Catherine, both worshipped in the same chapel. It is interesting to see that the author of the tiles, Eduardo Leite, mixed scenes from the lives of Saint Catherine of Sienna and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a virgin and a martyr, a mixture that is blatant on the main façade . The tiles were done in the “Viúva Lamego” factory, in Lisbon, and later restored in 1982.
The high altar and the altars of the nave are of neo-classical style. They are devoted to St. John and to Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, respectively the first and the second, on the left, and to Our Lady of Fátima, Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Pain, respectively the first, the second, and the third, on the right.
The painter Joaquim Rafael was the author of the panel of the high altar, which represents the Lord’s Ascension.
A plinth, by the high altar, has the image of the Resurrected Jesus.
The nave has a foot panel of figurative tiles, in blue and white.
On the left side of the entrance, there is a panel of tiles representing the imposition of the sores to St. Francis and, on the right, the Souls and St. Francis, and St. Catherine, also by Eduardo Leite.
The big window of the main façade has a stained glass, by the painter Amândio Silva, depicting the souls (late 20th century). The image of Our Lady of the Souls is from the 18th century, while the others are modern.
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