This 3D model was originally created with Sketchup 13 and then converted to all other 3D formats. Native format is .skp 3dsmax scene is 3ds Max 2016 version, rendered with Vray 3.00 Church of Our Lady of Candelaria. Origins: According to the story - semi-legendary - about the origin of the church in the early seventeenth century, a storm would have done almost wrecked a ship called Candelaria, in which they traveled the Spanish Antonio Martins Palma and Leonor Gonçalves. The couple would have made the promise to build a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Candelaria to escape alive. The ship finally have contributed in Rio de Janeiro and the couple would have had to build a small chapel on the site of the present Candelaria church in 1609.