Under Bishop Don Martin de Barcia the church was internally decorated with paintings and both bells and the altarpiece were installed.

The altarpiece is decorated with a large sculpture of Mary with Christ which is traditionally carved from a single piece of wood.

[1] While King John I of Portugal was canvassing for governors after capturing ceuta in 1415, a young Pedro de Menezes, 1st Count of Vila Real was nearby, distractedly playing choca (a kind of Medieval hockey) with a stick of zambujeiro or Aleo (wild olive tree) from Alcoutim.

[2] As a result of this story, all future Portuguese governors of Ceuta would be presented with a zambujeiro staff as a symbol of their office upon their investiture.

Pedro de Menezes was originally buried in the cathedral of Ceuta (a converted mosque), but his remains were later translated by his daughter to the Augustinian monastery church of Igreja da Graça in Santarém, Portugal.