Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Angra do Heroísmo)

The primitive hermitage was erected under the invocation of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, next to the houses that belonged to the descendants of Pedro Anes do Canto, a rich man mentioned by Francisco Ferreira Drumond and who, upon his death, established three bonds.

Several buildings were built around the hermitage in Hortas, some of which were rebuilt a few years ago; and in Cruzeiro, which already existed in 1556, where the current hermitage was built in 1739, with the title of Senhor Santo Cristo do Cruzeiro, as it had the same image of Christ on the carved cross, all in a single stone, which existed in the aforementioned 'Cruzeiro'.

The first Franciscans arrived in Terceira around 1456 and from an early age tried to build a hermitage and later, in 1470, a convent. This primitive complex (convent and hermitage) was demolished, giving way to the current, larger and more imposing one. In 1663, when Frei Naranjo gathered the necessary donations for the works, they began. Three years later, the dormitories and workshops were completed and, on March 6, 1666, the first stone of the new temple was solemnly laid.