This route only asks for a little effort at the beginning to surmount the slight slope that brings you to discover Santa Rita spot and its small hermitage chapel –formerly known as the Chapel of Saint Pontius (Sant Ponç) and called nowadays the Chapel of Saint Rita. The building consists of a small nave with vaulted roof, which give it an air of neo-classical chapel, despite being a replica of an earlier chapel that was located in the same place and was probably destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. On the roof, there used to be a bell that was stolen. Inside the shrine there is a plain altar table and three images of the Patron Saints Pontius, Raymond Nonnatus and Rita of Cascia.Formerly, an outdoor meeting was organised there on St. Pontius day. A great number of people from Malgrat and surroundings would go up to celebrate. Nowadays, devotees of Saint Rita (patron saint of lost and impossible causes) still go up to the chapel and pray a Novena during nine days before May 22. Their tradition is the only one of both that has reached our time, hence the name that is popularly given to the place now.
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