According to the legend, Memory Hermitage was built by the order of the knight Dom Fuas Roupinho [pt] in 1182[1] after Our Lady of Nazaré saved him from falling off the cliff when he was following a deer on a horse.

It happened where the original statue of Our Lady, sculpted by St. Joseph in her presence and then painted by St. Luke, was placed next to a small altar by Roderic, king of the Visigoths.

The statue was brought to this place by Roderic in 714 along with a monk named Romano from the monastery located near the city of Mérida after the Battle of Guadalete.

[2] In 1616 a historian of the Kingdom, Bernardo de Brito, visited Sitio to fulfill a vow, where he attempted to find the cave the image was found from.

[1] It's depicting Virgin of Nazaré with the Child in the arms, St. Brás and St. Bartholomew on the right, and Dom Rodrigo and monk Romano on the left.

The inscription on the right is composed of the text by Monk Bernardo de Brito, transcribed from the "Monarquia Lusitana" in Latin, referring to Our Lady of Nazaré and to the origin of its cult in these places.