• Ex-voto to San Miguel. In the month of June, 1783, Doña Jasinta Cahacho was suffering, without hope of human remedy. She prayed to San Miguel for his intervention and drank water from his well … the moment she drank, she was cured, thanks to God forever.

In the month of June, 1783, Doña Jasinta Cahacho was suffering, without hope of human remedy. She prayed to San Miguel for his intervention and drank water from his well … the moment she drank, she was cured, thanks to God forever.

From Pestilence and headcolds: encountering illness in colonial Mexico by Sherry Fields

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