Igreja de Santa Catarina
The Igreja de Santa Catarina carries one of Lisbon’s most defining stories in its stones: the citywide quake of 1 November 1755. Founded by the religious community of São Paulo da Serra de Ossa, the church—then known as the Church of Santíssimo Sacramento—began in the second half of the 17th century, with construction traced from 1654, and it was built attached to the Convento dos Paulistas. A devastating fire after the earthquake destroyed much of the original building, and the church was rebuilt until the works were completed in 1763. In 1835, the Church of the Convento dos Paulistas became a parish church under the patronage of Santa Catarina. Inside, an organ inaugurated in the early 18th century survived the 1755 disaster and was recovered in 2018 by Dinarte Machado. …
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