Religious folklore, particularly among Catholics, said that during a horse race on
La Calle de Cristo, a young rider and his horse took a bad fall. The rider went over the precipice but was miraculously saved. The chapel was built where the fateful race was said to have occurred in honor of the young rider named Baltazar Montañez. It has become both a tourist attraction as well as a stop for religious pilgrims, who occasionally leave a
religious votive at the chapel. It is only open on Tuesdays. Different versions of the legend mention that either the rider or Tomas Mateo Pratts, an observer yelled for divine intervention. In a book about Puerto Rican legends, José Ramirez-Rivera writes that the horse was killed but Baltazar lived. Afterwards, permission was granted to build the Catholic chapel and festivals were held for years afterward to celebrate the miracle. In his writings about Baltazar, Puerto Rican historian
Cayetano Coll y Toste described him as a slave who worked in the sugar cane fields of Puerto Rico but made no mention of the legendary accident. ==Gallery==