Chapel of St. James

This exquisite chapel was built in 1629 and rebuilt in 1740 on the A-Ma Fort, which is at the end of the small town of Macau. At the time, the chapel was part of a Portuguese-style hotel building, and the hotel was built on the foundations of a fort. In this exquisite chapel were placed statues of saints and tiles of Our Lady of Fatima and Queen Isabel. image. St. James is the military patron of Macau. It is said that he often patrolled the city so that his leather boots were often stained with mud, and a soldier was responsible for cleaning the boots of the idol. Once he forgot to clean his boots and was injured by the idol's sword.