Ethnographic heritage
Os Medos Souls' Shrine Peto de ánimas
- Estás, Os Medos, 1908
- Coordinates:41.970229, -8.764867
It is attached to the wall of a house in Os Medos. It has a rectangular base serving as a pedesta for the chapel, which features a gabled roof topped with a cross of straight arms with chamfered edges. It features a niche with a semicircular arch that contains a wooden altarpiece with heavily deteriorated traces of polychrome paint. At the bottom, there is and alms box with an iron lid, and a convex-profiled ledge that protrudes from the structure.
The year “1908” is engraved on the upper front.
Bibliography: Fernández de la Cigoña, Estanislao and Loira, Félix: “Cruces, cruceiros e petos da parroquia de San Xoán de Amorín (Tomiño-Pontevedra)”, in Asociación Galega para a Cultura e a Ecoloxía: Actas do X Congreso Galego de Cruceiros, 2015. Asociación de Veciños da Aurora Boletín Informativo Cultural, 1.
