ROMAN CATHOLIC FRUIT

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 29, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 13.

ROMAN CATHOLIC FRUIT.

RELIGIOUSLY, Mexico is a monument of Catholicism. Rome has had full sway there for centuries. The following dispatch tells its own story, and a like superstitious pall hangs over all the Central and South American States, and everywhere else where Catholicism is unobstructed:—

CITY OF MEXICO, January 12.—A great religious uprising is threatened at Lecheria, and already $70,000 worth of property has been destroyed. An Indian working in the Haciende de Lecheria found a maguey leaf had been worm-eaten until it contained a tracing which, to the Indian, appeared to be a reproduction of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Filled with devout joy, he prostrated himself before the plant to worship the picture. Then he hastened to the master of the hacienda to tell him of the great mark of favor bestowed upon him from heaven.

The master, Señor H. Pimental, came, and looked at it contemptuously, remarking that any worm could eat out as good a picture as that. He then snapped it with his cane and left. The Indian was infuriated.

That night the hacienda and 1,000 bales of cotton were burned, and the incendiarism has been traced to the Indian. The other Indians were aroused over the indignity and have all assembled and are holding a great feast. A petition has been sent to the cathedral in this city asking that a prelate be sent to examine the picture.

And Satolli says, "What Rome has done for other countries, she will do for the United States."