Located on the main pedestrian street of the city, Calle Mesones, this chapel of the former Hospital de Caridad, now an old people’s home run by the Mercedarian Sisters, has been preserved.
The façade is from the 18th century, a simple façade with two pilasters, entablature and split pediment, which contains a niche with the image of the patron saint. The interior, also from the 18th century, has a single nave with barrel vaults and lunettes and a vaulted ceiling in the presbytery. It is a simple interpretation of the Sevillian Baroque style of the time.
This church, owned by the municipality, was ceded to the Hermandad de la Amargura in 2011, and since then it has been its canonical seat.
After the transfer from the parish church of the titular images of this brotherhood, the Santísimo Cristo de la Humildad y Paciencia, attributed to the workshop of Pedro Roldán, and specifically to Luisa Roldán “La Roldana”, from the end of the 16th century, should be highlighted in the church’s imagery. This carving of a naked Christ, covered only by a carved shroud, seated on a rock with his head resting on his right hand, was the only image to escape the flames and destruction caused by the Civil War in the town, thanks to a neighbour who hid it in a jar of oil. For this reason, it is popularly known as the “Cristo del Aceite” (Christ of the Oil).
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