Hundreds of pilgrims from the town of San Pablo Zitlaltepec, located in the Zitlaltepec municipality of Trinidad Sánchez Santos, They ascended to the top of La Malinche, to ask San Sebastián Mártir to intervene before God so that the water that is born among the oyamele forest does not run out.
On the eve of January 19, the parishioners stayed overnight to sing the “Mañanitas” to San Sebastián, in the church located at the source of crystalline water, a little less than a kilometer from the top of the fifth mountain highest in Mexico.
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The travelers did not care about the frost that occurred at more than 3,800 meters of altitude, a remnant of Cold Front number 24. They took blankets, made campfires and they made coffee for the night at the foot of the Grande ravine. “We have walked four hours, from the town of San Pablo, but it is worth watching over our Patron Saint, we do it every year, we receive health in exchange… after a while we listen to mass and, then, we return home in the afternoon ”, assured Salvador Carrera, a pilgrim from San Pablo.
Until the Temple Catholic Only children, adolescents and adults could climb, not adults over sixty years of age, since access is dangerous and difficultsince, the pilgrims must cross a deep ravine.
At noon, Victorino Osornio Osorno, parish priest of that community, celebrated the traditional homily. He remembered the faithful that San Sebastián Mátir is the cause of the celebration. “It is the only place in Tlaxcala, where the crowd has to walk four hours to this place on the mountain, but the last thousand steps are walking, there is no way to get up in a vehicle.”
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Increased this year the number of pilgrims
The priest expressed that unlike last year, the registration of pilgrims almost doubled Well, “this is because the representatives of the media are not helping through Facebook to replicate what we did last year.”
Regarding the havoc that climate change has caused among forests, he said: “global warming of the earth is a reality, nature reacts when we do not take care of it, when the hand of man intervenes, everything becomes a disaster, therefore, we must be more responsible to take care of natural resources by taking the garbage”he ordered his flock.
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Later, considered that this act of faith in the mountaincould increase if it is done on a weekend, although the pilgrims did not agree Well, they said that the Patron Saint is celebrated on his day.
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After the liturgical act, authorities of the stewardship and from Zitlaltepec organized themselves to give away food to the hundreds of visitors.
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In front of the church they offered rice and mole, while a kilometer down, they prepared carnitas So they sacrificed ten pigs.
Arturo Hernandez, a 35 year old man, he loaded San Sebastián on his back the 20 kilometer journey; he did it accompanied by butlers.
for his part some visitors took the opportunity to take spring water home.
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- On the eve of January 19, the congregation They stayed overnight to sing “Mañanitas” to San Sebastián, in the church located at the source of crystalline water.