wall with balusters (three on the façade and one on either lateral wall), with an open doorway. Interior Within its unique nave, the altar is decorated with polychromatic azulejo tile and pulpit completed in turned woodbalusters. Over the main entrance (in the western façade) is a high-choir, while the main altar (on the opposite wall) is highlighted by an image of the Virgin and a triptych from the 16th century. In detail: the triptych, painted on cedrus, dating back to the 16th century, by unknown painter, showing a representation of the Holy Family () in the central panel, while on the lateral panels the martyrs Saints Cosmas and Damian. A legend once existed that the triptych was used by Gonçalo Velho Cabral as a portable altar on board his caravel. The retable on where it is located was executed in the Convent of São Francisco in Vila do Porto around 1675. the image of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos (), dating to the 17th century, and sculpted in cedrus by friar Manuel de São Domingos, commissioned by the Brotherhood of Prostrated Slaves (). a panel of polychromatic azulejos around the altar, which pertains to the 17th century, and presented in 1679 by the Mariense Brás de Andrade Velho, prior of the Colegiada de São Cristóvão de Coimbra. With a theme of birds and branches, the design also includes a figure of Saint Blaise (). Also, in the sacristy is an inscription that refers back to the pirate attacks by the Moors in 1616 and 1675: On the night of the first to second day of September 1675, the Moors assaulted the site of this Hermitage through fault of the guards, whom entered through the door, captured eleven, between them women and children and with this whip they man-handled them, who placed it here to remember their success, those who so that your preaching to God will soon lift the punishment and may not involve more innocents; yet, left behind on land the whip that punished. They did not touch this chapel, passing around her; and as in 1616, they plundered the whole island by tradition, they did not see everyone who was [hidden] within. References Notes Sources Nossa Senhora Anjos Hermitage Nossa Senhora Anjos