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Built in the mid-seventeenth century by the cofrad of the same name, it presents an altarpiece whose central body highlights the great painting of nimas, the work of tinerfe or Crist bal Hern ndez Quintana (1651-1725), author of great significance because his work Marc good part of the baroque painting in the Canary Islands. The canvas represents the Souls of Purgatory, a traditional theme in the religious representations of the Counter Reformation. The Catholic Church, in its fight against the reformist theories that questioned the existence of Purgatory, fosters this devotion, and is consequently consistent with the theories of the Council of Trent. It is a cult that arises towards the end of the 16th century. In the lower part of the altarpiece, three niches house the images of the bulk of San Francisco Javier, between San Cayetano and San Crist Bal. The latter, from the 16th century, is considered the oldest one that is venerated in the city of which it is patron. He is represented carrying a child on his shoulder and leaning on a flowery cane, his usual iconographic attributes. Flanking the altarpiece, on two shelves, the images of San Blas and San Antonio Abad. The chapel is covered by a beautiful polychrome coffered ceiling, of pair and knuckle, ochavado (with vegetal decoration), with lacer ace (decorated with eight-pointed stars) and contemporary of the time of its foundation. We find this type of cover again in the chapels of San Pedro, San Antonio and San Juan Evangelista.
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