Our Lady of the Angels
Our Lady of the Angels is where Mary ascended into heaven by the angels whose singing is believed to still be heard there.
Our Lady of the Angels is where Mary ascended into heaven by the angels whose singing is believed to still be heard there.
The Friday before Good Friday is for Our Lady of Sorrows. It acknowledges Mary’s pain at losing her only child with altars throughout town.
A painting of Mary brought to Mexico where she saves a man’s soul from an Old Testament sea monster.
Eight days after Corpus Christi is the Octave of Christ in the Oratorio.
Mules’ Day is a pre-Hispanic rituals thanking deities through offerings. To give or receive a toy mule is considered a friendly joke today.
The Monastery of Solitude is a Benedictine Cloister for men in the hinterlands surrounding San Miguel.
To visit the jardin these evenings is to witness a dust covered egg war zone filled with hilarity and good cheer.
The dancers are venerating El Señor de la Conquista, a 1542 statue of Christ housed in the Parroquia that helped convert the indigenous.
Beginning at midnight in a procession of thousands of people, this life-sized figure of the beaten and bloody Christ is carried into town.
Our Lady of Loreto is an image of Mary that graces the city from many niches and doors and is the Grand Patroness of San Miguel de Allende.