File:Capilla Del Cristo Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.jpg
Front view of "Capilla del Cristo de los milagros" - a church of Old San Juan|San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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- Cristo Chapel was built to commemorate what legend says was a miracle. In 1753 a young rider lost control of his horse in a race down this very street during the fiesta of St. John's Day and plunged over the precipice. Moved by the accident, the secretary of the city, Don Mateo Pratts, invoked Christ to save the youth, and he had the chapel built when his prayers were answered..
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