Chapel of the Holy Mother of God Gensa in Lisbon is also called the Hermitage of the Mother of God on the Mount. It is an important sacred object of the parish of St. Vincent. Inside the chapel there is a stone chair that belonged to St. Gensa, associated with him is a local legend, according to which the pregnant ladies who sat on him were to have happy solutions. Jan V's wife, Maria Anna from Austria, sat there when she was pregnant with the heir to the throne. The first hermitage that existed here was built in 1147. It was dedicated to Saint. Gens of Lisbon, the city's bishop, who were martyred in this place.
The Augustinian brothers who looked after the hermitage placed the stone chair of the saint inside. After the earthquake in 1755, which destroyed the entire area around it, the hermitage was destroyed. The current hermitage was built in 1796, in a place slightly above the original, and is the work of the architect Honorato José Teixeira.
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