Saviour of an open style which has an enormous, artistic stone cross attached that shows all the signs of being that which inspired the sculptor Cerviño for Santo Cristo dos Aflixidos in Covelo, as it shows many aspects of the former, with the detail that that of Margarita is the older.

The cross is crowned by a dove. On the face there is a crucified Christ with his head almost erect and a friar, St Francis, who is approaching him with a chalice. The shaft of the column, tall and narrow, is octagonal and narrows as it reaches the top. The capital shows an angel's head on each face, but under the feet of the Saviour there is a skull. A cylindrical cross that shows Christ hanging below the “INRI”.

On the reverse of the cross there is a standing virgin, over which two angels hold a crown. Half way up the shaft you can see two saints facing each other, one of them holding a hammer.

The date 1794 appears on the cross, this is 105 years before that of Cerviño in Covelo, among the artistic distribution of the elements and the symbolism of the work we find the same components that the Cotobade stone mason would later use in the monumental cross made in 1899 in the Concello main square.

The altarpiece appears fixed to the foot of the pole, supported on a cube from the back. It is made of stone and unpainted. It shows St Anthony with a cord tied round his habit that two souls are using to escape from the depths of purgatory. On a lower plane there are three more souls, which clearly display their ecclesiastical state from their haircuts or the caps they are wearing that show that we are dealing with a bishop, a friar and a priest.

The date of construction, 1794, is shown on the front. It displays quality workmanship as the drawer for offerings still works.

A saviour with a stone cross is, without doubt, not unusual. However this is unusual as it has the saviour of souls on the back of the cross. The normal situation is the reverse: the saviour is always on the front

Source: book Cruces e cruceiros de ánimas de Galicia by
Estanislao Fernández de la Cigoña.
(Publisher AGCE. Year 1997.ISBN
84-87904-10-6)