Events

Let me state up front, there is no formal connection on June second between San Miguel de Allende, and Saint Blandina, the very first female saint.  However, I thought you may enjoy this story of a more informal relationship between Blandina and life in San Miguel …

Mules’ Day (Día de las Mulas) is associated with pre-Hispanic rituals in which people gave thanks to deities through offerings.  It is believed that a mule knelt in reverence to God on the day of Corpus Christi which is celebrated the same day. To give or receive …

The feast of Corpus Christi (body and blood of Christ) is celebrated on the first Thursday of June as a special veneration of symbolic body and blood of Christ in communion wafers and wine.  The indigenous were intrigued not only by the notion of a …

Día de los Locos takes place on the Sunday closest to June 13, St. Anthony’s feast day. St. Anthony is the saint you beseech to find anything lost, including people.  Though the flamboyant procession of costumes and masks of politicians, actors, cartoon characters and monsters …

The devotion to the Sacred Heart is one of the most widely practiced and well-known Roman Catholic devotions, taking Jesus Christ’s physical heart as the representation of his divine love for humanity.  It is celebrated as the feast day for men named Jesus (as Christmas is reserved to honor Jesus’ birth). …

Saint John the Baptist was Jesus’ cousin and is unique among patron saint days as being the only person, other than Jesus, who is commemorated on his birthday, June 24th.  Normally patron saint dates (or feast days, as those named as the saint get to …