Mohave County miner., 1901-02-16
Santa Teresa.

Santa Teresia, the patron saint of
the Yaqni Indians and the healer of
the people, is to make tour of the
world to endeavor to find among the
seers of Egypt or India some wise man
who can explain to her the source of
her wonderful healing powers.
Santa Teresa is we'll known in Cliff.
ton, where she cured many. She holds
letters of recommendation from sew
eral citizens of this city and mum Der
of residents can vouch for her curative
powers.
While in st. Louis the other day she
gave a reporter the following interview:
ii am rs years old l was born in
Sinaloa, Mexico. My mother was
very poor Mexican girl. Her name was
Callatena Chavez. Ny father was we'll.
to do His name is Thomas Urea.
am not legitimate child. My mother
was only fourteen when l was born.
My father has eighteen children and
my mothei four, and not one of them
is my own brother or sister.
81 went to school when / was nine
years old, but did not want to study,
but later ] felt wanted to know how
to read, and learned my alphabet from
a very, very old lady. My writing
came to me of itself. wanted to write,
and / wrote, but how | learned don't
know, for | was not taught. On the
floor of my mothers house | first wrote
with my little finger in the dust.
when | was sixteen my father sent
for me to come into his house. | went
TO his hacienda in Cabora. 1t was an
adobe, the walls inside white and
painted part of the way up as they
paint them Ia Sonora.
"There for three months and eigh-
teen days was in a trance. know
nothing of what l did in that time.
They tell me, those who saw, that
could move about, but that they had
to feed me; that | talked strange things
about God and religion, and that the
people came to me from all the coun.
try around, and IL they were sick and
crippled and put my hands on them
they got well. OF this | remember
nothing, but when came to myself
saw they were well.
"Then when | could rememb ber again
after those three months and eighteen
days, l felt change to me- could If
touched people or rubbed them make
them we'll.
II felt in me only the wish to do
good in the world. 1 spoke much TO
the people about God-not about the
church, or to tell them TO go TO church,
but about God. | told them what |
believe, that God is the spirit of love,
that we who are in the world must love
one another and live in peace; other
wise we offend God.
when l offend ! say to the one
whom have panied: Sister or broth
er, have offended you. ask forgive
ness
when cured people they began to
call me Santa Teresa. didn't like it
at first, but nov am used to it.
III was married at Clifton on the 22d
of last June to Guadalupe n. Rod.
riguez. He is u Mexican. had known
him eight months.
"The next day after we were married
he acted strangely; he tore up some
things of mine, packed up some of my
clothes i'm bundle, put it over his
shoulder and said to me: "Come with
mel"
The people who saw him said for me
not to go, out ! followed him. He
walked on the railroad track. did
not know where he wanted to go, but
would follow.
Then he began to run, l ran, too.
He had his gun and started to shoot
The people ran cut and made me come
back Then they caught him. He was
insane, and they put him in Jail. There
Is where be is now"
"You loved hitn?"
"Yes, that is why married him."
And you thought you ought to
marryY"
10 marry, senior, is one of Gods