Señor de los Milagros

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Mural of Señor de los Milagros in the Las Nazarenas shrine in Lima (Peru)

Señor de los Milagros (Eng. "The Lord of Miracles") is a Catholic festival that is celebrated every year on October 18th in Lima .

origin

It goes back to an image of a black, crucified Christ that was found in 1651 on a mud wall in the Pachacamilla district . The picture was probably painted by a black slave from Angola who immigrated with the Spanish during the conquest of the Inca Empire.

According to legend, this image on the mud wall withstood all attempts to remove it and survived the earthquake on November 13, 1655, which destroyed almost the entire city of Lima , unscathed. As a result, the wall with the picture became a place of pilgrimage initially only for the black population of Peru. After the wall with the picture also survived the second great earthquake on October 20, 1687 without damage, it was accepted by all sections of the population. It is also reported that Andrés de León, who was terminally ill with a tumor, was cured there around 1670.

Meaning and process

This festival is one of the most important processions in Lima. The 40 porters of the Brotherhood Señor de los Milagros carry an oil-painted image of the Black Christ on a stretcher made of mahogany wood weighing 2000 kilograms . The porters take turns every 15 minutes. There are a total of 20 support groups. The procession begins in Las Nazarenas Church and ends after 24 hours in La Merced Church . The stretcher crosses the center of Lima several times and covers a distance of six kilometers. 75 Sahumadoras with incense dispensers walk in front of the stretcher . Going even further ahead are the cantoras , women who sing traditional hymns . Music groups come behind the stretcher and then the people of Lima who join the procession. The men of the brotherhood, the faithful and above all the women and the team from the Alianza Lima football club , whose patron is the Señor de los Milagros, are dressed in purple during October . The purple color is traced back to the founder of the Nazareno Institute , Antonia Lucia , who was responsible for choosing clothes, in 1677.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Rubén Vargas Ugarte: Historia del Santo Cristo de los Milagros . Sanmartí, Lima. 3rd edition 1966.
  • Raúl Banchero Castellano: La verdadera historia del Señor de los Milagros . Inti-Sol, Lima 1976.
  • María Rostworowski: Pachacámac y el Señor de los Milagros. Una trayectoria milenaria (= Historia andina, vol. 19). Instituto de estudios peruanos (IEP), Lima 1992, ISBN 84-89303-20-7 .
  • Raúl Banchero Castellano: Historia del mural de Pachacamilla . Consejo Directivo del Monasterio de las Nazarenas Carmelitas Descalzas, Lima 1995.
  • Jeffrey Lockwood Klaiber SJ: El Señor de los Milagros. Devoción y liberación . Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones (CEP), Lima 1998.
  • María Rostworowski: El señorío de Pachacamac. El informe de Rodrigo Cantos de Andrade de 1573 . Instituto de estudios peruanos (IEP), Lima 1999, ISBN 9972-51-031-X .
  • Francesco Pini (ed.): El rostro de un pueblo. Estudios sobre el Senor de los Milagros . Fondo Editorial Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientae, Lima 2005.

Web links

Commons : Señor de los Milagros  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cristo de Pachacamilla (historia) (Spanish), accessed June 4, 2018.