It is a grand looking semi-gothic church, with the usual ornate bricabrac interior, as you can see in the picture below. What made it interesting to us, however, was that all around the interior walls are murals of miracles attributed to Our Lady of the Holy Water.
Below are three examples of the many murals on the interior walls.
The mural above depicts locals carrying Our Lady's statue as the nearby volcano erupts in 1797 - an eruption that miraculously caused very little damage to Banos.
Toward the end of the next century a fellow was crossing the canyon via rope cable when it broke sending him crashing to the canyon floor/river below, a fall he miraculously survived thanks to Our Lady, of course.
And in the picture above of more recent vintage there is a crashed car on the canyon floor to the left of the picture (take my word for it). A family returning around dusk in 1939 plunged off the road, falling 200 meters. As they fell they reportedly saw Our Lady through the car windows. All survived with nothing but minor scratches, thanks to ...
Our Lady with admirers - out of the picture to the left was a large collection of votive candles lit in her honor. That's Nancy to the far right.
Note the volcano erupting behind Our Lady.
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