The popular devotion at the site dates back to a chapel, under the invocation of St. Stephen, built in 1361.

In the sixteenth century, threatening ruin, was demolished (1568), starting the construction of a new temple on the initiative of the bishop of Lamego. In the new chapel was placed an image of the Virgin and Child.

Over time, devotion to St. Stephen decreased, replaced by devotion to the Virgin. The devotion of those who resorted to it for relief for diseases has led, in turn, the devotion to Our Lady of Remedies.

The current sanctuary was principled in 1750, and completed only in 1905.

Its traditional festivals, resulting annually from six to eight in September.

The temple has in its facade, the Baroque and Rococo features (“rocaille”). The facade is flanked by bell towers. In its construction was used to granite.

In the twelfth century, after the restoration of the Diocese of Lamego, the construction began of a larger temple. Its location became effective on Rossio Lamego, in the lower zone of the future metropolis, and began in the year 1159. Sacred in 1175 the Santa Maria and St. Sebastian, the likely conclusion of the See would only happen in 1191 . However, the various ages of history undertook to change significantly its original Romanesque profile.