Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-23

cloth, convinced the bishop that the
tidines came from the Lord, and
he AZ once caused the building OF
the shrine as per directions. Such,
in brief. is the story OF Our Lady
OF Guadalupe Shrine On the hill
out of which Eushes a spring Of
clear and sparkling water and In
which the sick and afflicted find
cures and surcease. There was no
spring there before the visitation Of
the angel Of Guadalupe.
Auga Leguas, Nuevo Leon, Mex
leo, has its shrine erected to anoth-
or Our Lady, and is called "Nuestro
Sonora de Aqua Leguas,' or Our
Lady Of Aqua Leguas, and has also
its miraculous panacea for all the
ills that flesh IS heir to in a sulphur
spring which gushes out OF the
banks Of the Little River Of Mier
which divides the town or Aqua
Leguas in two parts.
One day the people went down to
the spring for the usual bath and
found TO their horror that 1t was
dry. It was in the time OF the
drOuth referred to above. For the
first time in the memory Of the
oldest inhabitant the spring. their
holy spring. was dry. III must have
been the drouth. they said. and al
though saddened and frighted, they,
like their Moorish ancestors. muir
INJURED "kismet" and resigned
themselves. This IS characteristic
Of the Mexican people. They are as
much fatalists as Turks are and
just about as stoical in the face Of
disaster.
But this last blow was too much.
Their river was dry; their children
and themselves starving; their live
stock dying. All this they could
bear heroically. but when their
miraculous cure-all ceased 70 put
forth its healing liquid, they gave
up in despair.
While they were in the midst Of
their sorrows. some In the church
praying, others in the plazas watch
ing for signs Of rain. there appeared
In their town a typical peon or the
Indian type bearing a beautiful
waXen image OF Our Lady OF Gaud-
alupe in his arms. The image was
crowned with a glory OF blonde
hair; her eyes were bI.e and she
was robed in scarlet trimmed in
silver and gold. The peon came on
with slow and measured tread until
ne reached the main plaza. IN
stantly he was surrounded by the
toWnsDeople who looked with Won
der-tlled eyes at the image he bore.
They crowded around him PLYING
nm with a thousand questions.
Whence he came. who he was.
whittier bound. and. above All.
where did he get the Santita?
II come" said the peon. from
beyond the mountains Of CerraIvo.
! come 20 YOU. people Of Aqua In-
Fuas. by command OF Our Good
Lady OF Aqua Leguas, who appeared
70 me in n vision five DAYS aFo. and
giving me this likeness Of herself
babe me carry II to the suffering
people Of this town with the request
that If the Santita does not cause
the waters Of the spring 20 flow
again, We two are 10 90 on our way
empty handed. III. after we have
zone TO your spring and its waters
flow again. YOU are to reward us
with all the money you can spare
TO succor us on u Journey 10 the
ends OF the world. The Santita has
heard your prayers and heart bleedS
for your sufferings and note. vi!
gente. that in her anguish she
WpPDc for vOun And SIRE enough.
with TIE poems hand on her beau
tiful blonde hair. the images eyes
filled with tears and the tiny drops
ran down her waxen cheeks and all
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