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English: The Mother Church of Our Lady of Candelaria was inaugurated in 1780, under the same invocation of the demolished chapel. At the inauguration, the church received the image of Our Lady of Candelaria that belonged to that chapel. Inside, the primitive ceiling and gilding were made by José Patrício da Silva, who from Santos brought his assistant and apprentice to Jesuino Francisco de Paula Gusmão, known as Friar Jesuino do Monte Carmelo, who painted the walls of the chancel . The details of the altars were made by the imaginary Guilherme, from Paraíba. The foundations and walls are of gravel with piled boulders, with thick pieces of wood inside. The facade was completed only in 1831, with the introduction of the tower and its bells, and also its churchyard, with its staircase. Later, in the XIX century, its frontispiece was renovated by the architect Ramos de Azevedo.