Lima's Lord of Miracles
Imagine a dark-skinned Christ, painted on a wall by an Angolan
slave during the Spanish Viceroyalty. Imagine a wooden platform
covered with silver and gold, weighting over a ton. Imagine a
procession of hundreds of thousands of devotees, all dressed in
purple habits. If you can, you've probably been in Lima during
October, the mystical month. That's when the city's patron, the
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