El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-31
TOUR THE WORLD
SANTA TERESA, THE HEALER,
WILL JOURNEY TO INDIA
She is Seeking Some Seer Who Can
Explain to Her the Source of Her
Wonderful Powers

Santa Teresa, the patron saint OF the
Yaqui Indians and the healer of the
people is to make a 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 TIE reSa is well known in Ell
Paso, where she cured many. She holds
letters of recommendation from sew
eral citizens of this city and a number
of residents can vouch for her cura-
tive powers.
While in st. Louis the other day
she gave a reporter the following in
tervlew:
q am % years old, ] was born in
Sinaloa. Mexico. My mother was a
very poor Mexican girl. Her name
was Calletana Chavez. My father was
well-to-do. His name is Tomas Urea.
l am not a legitimate child. My moth
er was only fourteen when l was born.
My father has eighteen children and
my mother four, and not one of them
is my own brother or sister.
Il went to school when l was nine
years old, but did not want to study
but later L felt l wanted to know how
to read, and l learned my alphabet
from a very, very old lady. My writ
write, and l wrote, but how l learned
don't know, for 1 was not taught.
On the floor of my mothers house
first wrote with my little finger in the
dust
when l was sixteen my father sent
for me to come into his home. | went
to his hacienda in Cabora. 1t was
adobe, the walls inside white and
painted part of the way I'D as they
paint them in Sonora
There for three months and eigh-
teen days I was in a trance. l know
nothing of what l did in that time.
They tell me. those who saw. that l
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 country around. and if they We're
sick and crippled and | put my hands
on them they got we'll OF this ] re-
member nothing. but when l came to
myself I saw they were well.
Then when l could remember
again. after those three months and
eighteen days. 1 felt a change in me-
1 could if l touched people or rubbed
them make them well.
II felt in me only the wish to do
good in the world. | spoke much to
the people about God-not about the
church. or to tell them to go to church.
but about God. l 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;
otherwise we offend God.
when l offend / say to the one
whom have panied: Sister or broth
er. have offended you. l ask forgive
ness
When 1 cured people they began
to call me Santa Teresa. l didn't
like it at first, but now l am used to
it.
Il was married on the 22d of last
June to Guadalupe n. Rodriguez. He
is Mexican. l had known him eight
months.
THE next day after we were mar
ried he acted strangely; he tore up
some things of mine. packed some of
shoulder, and said to me: Come with
me-
1.-The people who saw him said for
me not to go. but | followed him. He
walked on the railroad track. | did
not know where he wanted to go but
1 would follow.
"Then he began to run. l ran. too.
He had his gun and started to shoot.
The people ran out and made me come
back. Then they caught him. He was
insane, and they put him ~ Jail. There
is where he is now
You loved him."
Yes, that is why 1 married him."
"And you thought you ought to mar
ry?"
ITO marry, senior, is one OF GODS
laws. l did not disobey.
81 have been charged by the Next
cans with causing the uprising of the
Yaqui Indians. | did not cause them.
never melted anybody to bloodshed.
'"Ten years ago the Mexicans began
to suspect me. They sent officers of
the government to spy on me. They
asked me what | thought of the gov
eminent and the Indians. I told them
the Indians were abused; they were
treated too harshly; they were killed
men. women and children-when
they should only have been mildly
punished.
THE officers went back and reported.
Then they sent an army of 300 men
to capture me-a poor little 1S-year-old
girl
They took me from my home. and
to Guaymas. where they held me
prisoner They did not put me in Jail.
but in the governors house, in room
looking out upon cattle yard.
1.-The mosquitoes ate me; the heat suf-
located me. / suffered.
"Then the people-my friends
came and demanded that I be re-
leased. They took me to Cabora, and
there / healed many.
There were angry mutterings
among the people. and the Mexican
government banished me from the
country. I went to Arizona. where l
lived for many years and cured thous-
ands. / also went to Texas-to Ell
Paso-where I cured many more.