[Medicine]. [Mexico]

Despedida y Suplicas de Maria Santisima, y Recuerdo de los Mexicanos a Sus Sagrados Dolores [caption title]

Mexico City: 1833. Broadside, 6.25 x 8.5 inches. Very minor soiling and wear. Near fine. Item #6283

Cholera was a genuine scourge in 19th-century Mexico, and the present work comes out of the epidemic that broke out in August of 1833. According to parish records, it is estimated that a total of five percent of the population of Mexico City died as a result, with the number of deaths causing overcrowding in both hospitals and cemeteries. The present document describes how the image of Our Lady of Sorrows was venerated in the Casa de los Ejercicios de la Profesa and carried in solemn procession to the church of the convent of the nuns of the Lord of Santa Teresa on Saturday, August 17, 1833, only eleven days after the first case of cholera was detected in Mexico City. After the conclusion of the novena held in the Metropolitan Church, the image of the Most Holy Mary was returned to its temple on September 9, 1833; through the supplications made by the faithful to the aforesaid images, the great epidemic of cholera morbus was thereby calmed. An ephemeral piece, not traced in OCLC.

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