2024-08-08 06:04:35
Since the beginning of time, human beings have sought to place their faith in gods, saints and forces of nature… And one of them is found in the Bravo neighborhood of Tepito, the Little Black Angel.
The veneration of this has flourished on Carpintería Street 35, where there is an altar dedicated to this image, which curiously shares a block with the altar to the Holy death from Alfarería Street; in both cases, their devotees come to these points in Mexico City to make offerings and prayers.
“The little black angel is a deity,” he says solemnly. Alexis The Chinowho set up this altar in his home.
Six years ago, his mother was facing breast cancer, to the point that she would undergo surgery to remove one of her breasts… Faced with this, her son claims that she made a pact with the Angelito to prevent his mother from entering the operating room.
“He Little Black Angel is a very great deity. My mother was completely devastated by the chemotherapy, she didn’t eat and she didn’t sleep.“I approached you with complete faith: ‘If you give me a chance to make my mother whole, I will build an altar for you,’ where many people will come to visit you and get to know you,” Alexis says.
In an interview with 24 HOURS, The Chinese He tells that he visited the state of Hidalgo to meet Oscar Pelcastre, who is known as The Black Bishop, creator of the Angelitowho performed at Alexis an initiation ritual and then giving him a figure representing this, which is now venerated on the street of Carpentry 35, in the colony Morelos.
“He (Pelcastre) was the one who made the pact with me, there were some cuts in the skin and my blood was offered to him (Little Black Angel)It was a bit painful. I feel proud because I did it with a lot of effort. amor y much faith so that my mother could recover from cancer,” he explained.
Likewise, the Tepiteño recalled that, after having placed the altar of the Little Black Angel, In his home he lost several friends and even earned the “bad looks” of his neighbors, who repudiated the figurebut at the same time the “hidden” ones came out to support Alexis with his promise.
“Police, bodyguards, government officials and even criminal groups come to the altar, but families also come to ask for health and work. People also come from other countries like United States, Chile and Argentina,” he commented.
For Felipe Gaytán, academic of the La salle universityassured that the cult of Little Black Angel It does not have the characteristics of Satanic worship, and rather it is a demon dressed as a cowboy or charro on most occasions.
“They make different offerings to him, not in satanic terms, and his followers are people in extreme situations, who can be outside or within the law itselffor example, merchants, taxi drivers or threatened residents,” he explained.
Gaytan explained that the Little Black Angel He is that fallen angel who cares despite evil, and unlike the Virgin of Guadalupe or Saint Death, With those who pay the mandate, with the fallen angel a negative exchange is made, because “the more you ask, the more you have to give and then a kind of pact becomes that you will not be able to get out of,” he mentioned.
The sociologist also explained that another of the differences between the faithful to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Holy Death and the Little Black Angel, is that they are regularly venerated by familieswhile the worshipers of the little angel are individual, hence an initiation ritual is performed.
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2024-08-08 06:04:35