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e esquipulitasArrival of the image of the Lord in Moroleón Esquipulitas, Guanajuato.
This is a story, which unlike most we have met in this space, Mr. Poison, The Lord of Chalma, the Lord of theThird Order, the Peruvian Taytacha Lord, the Lord of Arar, they are all manufactured for worship at the beginning of the colonial period, covering the second half of the sixteenth century and earlyseventeenth century.We will see today, already belongs to the last period of the colony, as it comes to Moroleón in 1805.

The story writes Don Jesus Lopez Lopez begins: "The nineteenth century beganhappily for the inhabitants of the Congregation, since in the year 1805 was a singular achievement and strange and momentous which was the advent of the precious image Lord of Esquipulas, traditionalnarrative which we will transcribe the reader as we receive and retain from our elders.

To better position ourselves, we must refer to the Lord of Esquipulas, the image of Christ which is located inthe same village in Guatemala, close to the border with Honduras and it is from their dinner in 1595 the most revered of all the Central American region.This Christ of Esquipulas also keeps hislegend, as it was carved in wood rich region, where the best mahogany, but the Indians wanted it to be of the same color over time with continuous worship and hundreds of candles on, the image took on adarker color satisfying the original request. Thus, centuries later, in late 1804 found a mysterious Spanish, of which not much is known, only your name, Alonso de Velasco, who lived somewhere inGuatemala, knew of the existence of a highly revered temple in the rich mines of Guanajuato and it was his desire to send a replica of the holy image of Our Lord of Esquipulas, short size, easy to carry,something happened and coincidences of life, is, while later in the Chiapas region Soconusco, located in the current border between Mexico and Guatemala with José María Aguilar, known in the region of...