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ENG Welcomes 22 ignatian sites

The Well of the Hen (and chapel)

On Sobrerroca Street we can come across a well that reminds us of a miraculous story which according to local folklore took place in 1602: a fourteen-year-old girl was looking after her stepmother’s hen, when suddenly the animal ran away and fell into this well. The hen drowned and the girl was so frightened of her stepmother’s reaction, that she begged Saint Ignatius to bring it back to life. According to tradition, this is exactly what happened. In the eighteenth century a small adjacent chapel was built with an altarpiece inside which explained the legend. The city continued to remember this miraculous event for many years after by drinking the holy water from the well.