The Church of Our Lady of Health and Glory (Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Saúde, or more fully Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Saúde e Glória) is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
It was constructed by Manuel Ramos Parente and his wife Maria de Almeida Reis on the second line of hills below the Historic Center of Salvador in the 18th century.
[1][2][3][4] The Church of Our Lady of Health and Glory was constructed on land owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Manuel Ramos Parente on farmland known as Alvo.
Manuel Ramos Parente died in 1726 and his widow, Maria de Almeida Reis, completed the construction of the church.
Domingos da Costa Filgueira was commissioned to complete ceiling paintings in the nave, vestry, and below the choir in the same year.
The provenance of images in the church is difficult to determine, but the master sculptor Felix Pereira Guimarães was commissioned to complete some works according to records of February 1791.
[6][7][2] The Church of Our Lady of Health and Glory is located in the second line of hills east of the Historic Center of Salvador.
[1][2] The Church of Our Lady of Health and Glory was constructed of stone and brick masonry with marble flooring.
Its current form dates to the 19th century and resembles that of the Church of Our Lady of Penha to the north of Salvador, which was constructed in the same period.
The bell towers have pear-shaped tops tiled in ceramic fragments "supported on arched cornices", similar to those of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament at Rua do Passo.
Carvings on the altar, the cross arch, tribunes, choir screen, and pulpits were completed between 1769 and 1770 by Domingos da Costa Filgueira; they were replaced in 1814 by neoclassical design elements.
The ceiling painting of the nave of the Church of Our Lady of Health and Glory is the work of the Bahian painter Domingos da Costa Filgueira (died 1797); it is in the Baroque trompe-l'œil style and was completed in 1769.