 Many of the older documents from the parish, housed in the "Torre do Tombo", refer to 1793.After the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which affected most of the country to some degree, the local Matriz Church was damaged.Following these events, the Portuguese archbishopric petitioned Pope Benedict XIV to invoke Saint Francisco de Borja in Portugal's post disaster reconstruction, promising processions throughout the cities and towns in the Kingdom, on the second Sunday in November.