On
the southern outskirts of Old Goa is a hill
on which stand this convent and church.
Built
of laterite, plastered with lime mortar,
the plain looking church and the single storeyed
convent with numerous cells are now in ruins.
A church, specially built in 1619 to house
the Cross of Miracles, having crumbled, the
present church was built on the same spot
in 1674.
The Convent housed the congregation
of the Oratory of Philip Neri of Goa. In
1835, the Church and the convent were abandoned.
The Cross of Miracles was transferred to
a chapel in the Se Cathedral in 1845. |
