living with her husband on the continent. The explorer Cristopher Columbus ordered his sailors to land to celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving, during their return voyage from the New World in February 1493. It is likely that Columbus' service was one of the first Masses held in the chapel. The researcher Miguel Corte-Real (1995) suspects that Tomé Afonso and his wife Isabel Gonçalves were not the original founders, but likely more recent patrons of this chapel. He referred to a document listed in the Archives of Ponta Delgada (by Velho Arruda) that indicate that, at the time of their deaths, Tomé Afonso and Isabel Gonçalves left their property towards the conservation of the chapel. It was remodelled between 1673 and 1676. In May 1675, the villagers opened a new trail that led from the escarpment to the chapel, followed in September by a religious procession to the chapel from a cross along the Caminho Velho. It was friar Gonçalo de São José who motivated the construction of the chapel, arriving from the Convent of São Francisco between 1668–1669, guiding the establishment of the Confraria dos Escravos da Cadeinha, confirmed in 1675 by the Bishop of Angra, Friar Lourenço de Castro. The establishment of this benevolent group directly succeeded the 1675 attack of the pirates. By the end of the 19th century, the chapel underwent restoration (1893) resulting in the actual façade. It was classified as a Property of Public Interest () in a resolution No.58, adopted on 17 May 2001 by the Direcção-Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais (DGEMN) (General-Directorate for Buildings and National Monuments). An annual festival in honour of the patron occurs on 21 August. Legend of the Cruzeiro A traditional legend explains the construction of hermitage and the cross that was located in the escarpment overlooking the temple. It was during the 16th century, when the residents of the local village wanted to construct a religious building in Anjos, the place where the navigator Gonçalo Velho Cabral had, along with his crew, disembarked and had a Mass in honour of their Atlantic discovery. The residents of the village believed that the best place would be in the lowlands, but the authorities responsible for the project did not understand the popular desire. In fact, the builders began constructing the church on the escarpment overlooking the popular location. But, mysteriously, during the construction, the rocks deposited by the workers