Unofficially beautiful downtown Catemaco, Veracruz was drenched with 255 mm (more than 10 inches of rain 2 days ago, and it has not stopped.
The weather must have been just like that when missionaries from Puebla stopped by to visit in the early 1700’s.
The weather must have been just like that when missionaries from Puebla stopped by to visit in the early 1700’s.
Those poor wet friars left behind a statue that has turned Catemaco into a pilgrimage center for thousand of aficionados of “Our Lady of Mount Carmel”, (the “Virgen del Carmen”) who is very attractively housed in one of only 27 basilicas in Mexico.
Photo Essay: History of the Catemaco Basilica and the Virgen del Carmen
Photo Essay: History of the Catemaco Basilica and the Virgen del Carmen
