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Legend of the Niño Jesús of El Balate

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Legend of the Niño Jesús of El Balate

Curiosity · Mula, Río Mula, Murcia

Image of Mula, not of the place itself.

The tradition that during the plague of 1648 the Christ Child appeared at Balate to the shepherd Pedro Botía and asked for a hermitage to be built for him and his image to be taken to Mula, whereupon the epidemic miraculously ceased.

Photo: ramon.cutanda (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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