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Oral History #037: The Saint In San Lorenzo, Suchítepequez, James Mondloch, Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'X, Diego Guarchaj
Oral History #037: The Saint In San Lorenzo, Suchítepequez, James Mondloch, Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'X, Diego Guarchaj
K'iche' Maya Oral History Project
The narrator tells the story of a man from San Lorenzo Suchítepeqez who, one day, a long time ago, arrived to a river near the town he saw a woman bathing there. When he wanted to approach her, she suddenly disappeared. When she appeared again she wasn't a woman; she had become the statue of a saint. The people of the town put the saint in the town church. There she grants favors to the faithful who arrive to ask her for them.
Oral History #036: The Saint In Chajul, James Mondloch, Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'X, Diego Guarchaj
Oral History #036: The Saint In Chajul, James Mondloch, Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'X, Diego Guarchaj
K'iche' Maya Oral History Project
The narrator tells the story of how a saint became happy with the presence of the soldiers keeping watch over him, so he changed the soldiers into statues and they remained permanently in the church with the saint.