DESCRIPTION

On Calle Mayor was the Asilo Hospital de los Pobres that also welcomed the sick and pilgrims. It was administered by the brotherhood of the Virgin Mary (since 1537), with a room for men and another for unmarried women, as well as two rooms for religious who came to preach. It also had a kitchen and a chapel, which had two altars where the Holy Sepulchre was venerated.

The Brotherhood of the Blood (Brotherhood of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ) already existed in 1565. In 1651 the Brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament of Minerva joined it.

Popular tradition says that after the miraculous appearance of the image of Ecce-Homo in 1590, it was there until the current temple was erected in the same place.

Because of the earthquake of 1644, the Blessed Sacrament of the Church was moved to the Chapel of the Blood.

In 1757 the Brotherhood decided to demolish the building and erect a chapel dedicated to the Ecce-Homo, moving the hospital to the street that is now called in 1759.

During the works, the images of the Ecce-Homo, the Virgin Mary "Gitadeta" and the Christ were moved to the church, but only the Ecce-Homo returned in 1777.

The construction of the chapel lasted 18 years, from 1759 to 1785. It was blessed in 1776. Baroque in style, it was made by the Valencian architect Fray Francisco Cabezas. 

Es octagonal plan of 12.5 m in diameter. The blue-tiled dome and four windows rise to 14.5 m high. The triangular bell tower dates from 1850. Upon entering it, the colour gold invades us from every point of view, and the colourful medallions of the dome extol the Christian journey of eighteenth-century art.
It houses the image of Ecce-Homo, the patron saint of the population. It is a wooden carving dated from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, of great value and beauty.

It is said that behind the chapel of the Ecce-Homo (where Carrer de Sant Llorenç is), at that time there was a private house that was acquired by the Brotherhood in 1904, according to a notarial deed.

At the outbreak of the Civil War the house was in ruins and in it there was a well typical of the town, and as it lacked a curb, it was covered with some wood and reeds. In the spring of 1937, some refugee children in Pego and who lived in the neighboring house were playing in the lot. One of them broke the reed that covered the well and fell to the bottom of it. Frightened, the other children fled asking for help, several women and a man (Bernardino Ortolà Gonzàlez), who had come from weighing with the bar and the roman. When they arrived at the place, they found the boy outside the well, completely wet, excited and very pale, claiming that a dark-skinned man, covered with a red cloak, had held out a reed to him and, without knowing how, he saw himself outside. The man had disappeared. For years it was said that this child, now an adult, came to Pego every year at Easter to accompany the Ecce-Homo in procession.

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