This sacred place has been the subject of myths and legends for a long time. Stories of fabulous treasures hidden inside the church follow one another among the local elders, who tell how thanks to a procession in 1777, in which the faithful brought the high relief with them to ask for an end to a drought, a miracle occurred which he stopped the drought and also helped the population to save themselves from the cholera epidemic that struck Controguerra in 1840.