Place church/chapel São Gonçalo Funchal
Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows
Capela de Nossa Senhora das Neves
São Gonçalo · Funchal
Near the Garajau headland, east of Funchal, Madeira
The Capela de Nossa Senhora das Neves is a sixteenth-century chapel near the Garajau headland east of Funchal, founded by the early settler João Afonso Mealheiro and his wife Catarina de Sá. It gave its name to the locality, was the seat of a curacy and first housed the parish of São Gonçalo. Popular belief held that a cleric struggled with the devil near it.
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- Old Buildings — Chapel cited by Neale.
- Popular beliefs — Chapel near which a cleric reportedly struggled with the devil.