Founded in 1520 by the prior of Xunqueira de Ambía Don Alonso de Piña, promoter and patron of numerous artistic enterprises of the 16th century. In 1523, the Franciscans settled there. During the French Revolution, it was a refuge for many French priests and bishops. In 1809, during the Peninsular War, the French troops destroyed the church and its images, subsequently killing priests, friars, and villagers. In 1813, another fire ravaged the dormitories, kitchen, cloister, and belongings of the Franciscans. With the secularization, the definitive abandonment of the convent and the beginning of its decline occurred. It was sold to private individuals who used its stones and belongings for other constructions. Worship continues in the church, but the monastery is abandoned and in a deplorable state. The building still maintains the church and the cloister, which correspond to the typologies and forms of the early Renaissance, although it also preserves Gothic elements: ribbed vaults, an abundance of grotesque and cardina decorations on the portals and arcades that bring this building closer to forms contemporaneously used by the “Isabelline” art developed in Castile and “Manueline” in Portugal. The quadrangular cloister features ogee arches supported by molded shaft columns and topped with simple but elegant capitals with sober vegetal or animal decoration, similar to the model used in the misericords of choirs of the same chronology.