At the bottom of the Calvary Hill, along the serpentine, is the Chapel of the Rock, where legend has it that a hermit once lived. His work is the beautiful stone relief on the right side of the cave, depicting the Coronation of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Trinity. After the hermit’s death, the cave was enlarged and converted into a church. By the end of the 1770s, it was used as the sanctuary of the church that had been built. Decades later, after the demolition of the Old Church, László Jékey and Magda Bartóky had the ornate, crested façade with the wrought-iron gate built in 1938, based on the designs of Antal Hendrich. Next to the chapel, the hermit’s tomb is buried in the hillside. A litany is celebrated here on 5 August, the day of the Farewell. During Advent, a life-size nativity scene is displayed in the chapel.
