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San lazaro saint11/27/2023 ![]() This year, some of the faithful had a new reason to pray to Saint Lazarus: the health of the president of Venezuela, Cuba’s main political ally and business partner, who underwent surgery last Tuesday for the fourth time for cancer in Havana. ![]() ![]() I made a promise for 10 years,” Jorge, who makes and sells candy in La Lisa, a western Havana suburb, told AFP. “I’m here because my daughter was seriously ill three years ago and she’s fine now. I made a promise to him (Saint Lazarus) that if my little girl never went to a hospital again, I would come every year that I could come,” Yaniset Avila, who came with her daughter, who is now 11 years old, told AFP. “My baby girl, when she was born, looked very serious. Once in the temple, the believers and payers of promises deposited their offerings to the saint and prayed, while the public renewed itself incessantly. The walk, which started on Sunday, took place under heavy police protection, in a fair atmosphere – as in previous years – with stalls selling criollo food and loud music, which was mixed with sales of flowers, candles and plaster statuettes of St. One man rolled down the road with two lighted candles held in place by his toes. Yeniel Zamole dragged a block of cement, others carried rocks, shackles or even a piece of rail. Dozens of faithful are martyred during the way and enter the temple exhausted, crawling, kneeling, rolling or doing somersaults. The five kilometer walk from the town of Santiago de las Vegas to the Sanctuary is completed by many dressed in jute or purple clothing. Visited by Pope John Paul II during his historic trip in January 1998, this small chapel is, together with a leper colony, the main place of devotion to this deity of popular creation, in a pilgrimage in which prayers are mixed with reggaeton, bread with piglet, rum and cigars. “I make this promise because of the devotion of my daughter, who walked here again thanks to Saint Lazarus,” said Zamole, a 25-year-old ceramist who paid a promise to a miraculous being venerated by Catholics and Santeros (worshippers of African origin), in a communist country that until 1992 was officially atheist, before becoming a layman.Įvery December 17, hundreds of thousands of Cubans come to the Sanctuary of Saint Lazarus in El Rincón, 30 kilometers southwest of Havana, to venerate the person whom Catholics identify with Saint Lazarus the Bishop and the Santeros with Babalú Ayé. Lazarus for her daughter’s health, while other believers on Monday asked Cuba’s most revered saint to intercede for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Yeniel Zamole crawled five kilometers with a cement block chained to one foot to thank St. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews. San Lázaro is a combination of the Catholic Saint Lazarus and the Orisha Babalu Aye (baba-loo eye-ay ). ![]() It blends Catholicism, Kongo, and Native American religions and their gods, orishas, and saints. The practice of Palo Monte began in Cuba. Palo Monte is an Afro-Cuban religion with strong links to Native American beliefs. Bedia explores the themes of identity and exile in his artwork, with a focus on his Palo Monte religion. José Bedia’s art reflects his Cuban heritage and celebrates the cultures of Indigenous peoples in Latin America, Africa, and North America. Many of his works feature sacred figures from the Palo Monte religion. It is a combination of Kongo, Native American, and Catholic beliefs.
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