Built around 1779, under the design of master builder Alarife Don Juan de Medina. With a solid architecture made of mucar stone and mortar of Arabic-Spanish style and with influence of a late sober baroque. Annually it is painted with lime, which gives it a new look. Its bells were molded under the direction of Father Feliciano Noel. The interior of the chapel, now a sanctuary, has five neoclassical altars, the last of which was destroyed in 1935 and was dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy. The main altar has a chiselled silver tabernacle, as well as the main dressing room dedicated to the Virgin of Candelaria, whose image is Catalan, from Barcelona, and which was acquired by Don Pascual de Ovando. Our Lady originally held the baby Jesus in a seated position, but the ladies from Tlacotalpeñas asked the bishop to place the baby in the arms of the Virgin Mary when she was forty days old. The painting that finishes off the altar is called “The Coronation of the Virgin” by Salvador Ferrando.
Location: Plaza Zaragoza s/n, Downtown. Tlacotalpan, Veracruz