Marta Pilar
Part of a Convent converted into a museum
This museum is in the Bishop's Palace, next to the Church of Mercy, and occupies part of the former Convent of Grace. It has important pieces of great artistic value, all of different ages and styles among which are 2 ivory images of Christ from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an eighteenth century image of Queen St. Isabel. Also preserved from the old church is a golden altar, a shrine with relics of San Vicente, San Zeno and St. Justin donated by D. João de Deus Ramalho (the Bishop of Macao). You can see from the outside several sixteenth century windows and doors of the.
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