I haven’t done an update on Elvia’s family in a long time. For those of you who haven’t read about Elvia, it begins with the post titled The Novena and a Tragedy. Other stories about her family can be found by searching ‘Elvia’ It is now just a little over two years since her husband […]
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Elvia’s Family
Posted in Family, Food, Mexican Culture, Only in Mexico, San Miguel de Allende on July 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Pilgrimage from Atotonilco to San Miguel
Posted in Festivals, Fireworks, Mexican Culture, Only in Mexico, Rituals, Semana Santa, Sounds of Mexico, Travel thoughts on April 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
Two sunday’s before Easter, Sr. de la Columna, the Virgin of Dolores and San Juan are removed from their places in the santuario, wrapped in silk scarves, covered, then carried in an all night pilgrimage to San Miguel for the upcoming Semana Santa celebrations and processions. Last Saturday night, my friend Elvia, her son and […]
Mexican Independence In 2 Minutes
Posted in Only in Mexico on September 16, 2010| 9 Comments »
The Independence of Mexico, starring: Ignacio Allende Padre Miguel Hidalgo Dona Josefa Ortiz Juan Aldama Ignacio Perez on his horse The people of Mexico. For those of you who do not understand Spanish it goes like this: Dona Josefa in Queretaro, searches for Ignacio Perez to ride his horse to San Miguel el Grande to […]
Corpus Christi 2010
Posted in Corpus Christi, Family, Festivals, Mexican Culture, Only in Mexico, Rituals on July 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
In last month’s Corpus Christi procession, Elvia’s son Beto was invited by personal invitation to carry the flowered litter, holding the chalice, in the procession. This is a big honor to anyone, and especially for a devout 18 year old young man. Early in the day, banners are hung throughout the town and altars go […]
Candelaria
Posted in Candelaria, Festivals, Food, Mexican Culture, Only in Mexico, Religious Events, Rituals, San Miguel de Allende, tagged Candelaria, candelmas, dia de reyes magos, ground hog day, San Miguel de Allende, santo nino, Three Kings Day on February 9, 2010| 2 Comments »
February 2 – the candlemas, groundhog day in the United States, a cross quarter celebration world-wide, is known here in Mexico as the candelaria, celebrated the 40th day after Christ’s birth, the day Jesus was presented to the temple. Never mind that the reason it took forty days to get him there was that women […]
Community Altar
Posted in Day of the Dead, dia de los muertos, Only in Mexico, Rituals, tagged neighbors on November 3, 2009| 2 Comments »
There’s too much going on today with getting ready to go up to the States tomorrow for Andreas’ first birthday to write a big post, but here’s a short follow up on the last few days with some photos from yesterday. I spent most of the day on Calle Relox, with Elvia and her girls, […]
Six Months Later
Posted in Day of the Dead, dia de los muertos, Mexican Culture, Only in Mexico, Religious Events, Rituals, Travel thoughts, tagged neighbors on November 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
I met up with Elvia and her four daughters at the cemetery today. She was late so I waited in front for an hour, arms full of flowers – you know me by now, trying to video people coming in with flowers, buckets, shovels, eating a bag of home made potato chips with salsa and […]
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