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Hermitage of la Santa Cruz de Mahoya

Abanilla, Oriental, Murcia

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Hermitage of la Santa Cruz de Mahoya

Monument · Abanilla, Oriental, Murcia

Image of Abanilla, not of the place itself.

Shrine beside the River Chícamo in the pedanía of Mahoya, built in 1904 over an earlier hermitage, which guards the Lignum Crucis venerated in Abanilla since the 16th century according to tradition and following a legend of its discovery beside an irrigation channel.

Photo: Fuentes1988 (Public domain)

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