São Cristóvão was greatly expanded after the end of Dutch rule and Our Lady of Victory was reconstructed by local inhabitants. The town sent an appeal to the King of Portugal for money for a full renovation of the church in 1666, and eventually received 4,000 cruzados in 1702. Our Lady of Victory served as a nucleus for the construction of other religious structures in São Cristóvão; its renovation was followed by the construction of the Church and Convent of Santa Cruz (Convent of San Francisco) (1693), the Convent and Church of the Order of Carmo (1699), Misericórdia Hospital and Church and the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men (1743).[1]