María Auxiliadora at the Basilica of Saint Sebastian in Diriamba, Carazo, Nicaragua.
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Our Lady of Sorrows, “La Dolorosa” at the Basilica of Saint Sebastian in Diriamba, Carazo, Nicaragua
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Author: Dr. Armando Luna Silva
Photography by: Jimmy Mendieta
Translation by: Alejandra Palacio/Jeffrey Mendieta
Dr. Armando Luna Silva tells of a miracle Santiago performed enabling a girl’s recovery from a child’s paralysis.
On the 20th of January of every year, the “Fiestas de San Sebastián” (Festival of Saint Sebastian) is celebrated in the city of Diriamba. The festival starts, the day before, with the popular procession “El Tope”, similar to the one that takes place during the “Fiestas de Santiago” (Festival of Santiago), the difference is that in Diriamba they are of a more colorful nature due to their folkloric dances.
The procession of “El Tope” enters the town through the “Torre del Reloj” (a street with a distinctive “Clock Tower”). On the door steps of their homes, families, gather in silence to contemplate the passing of the procession that slowly drowns itself in the noise of the afternoon’s landscape. In one door was the Briceño family with their soul drenched in devotion. Continue reading
Author: Dr. Armando Luna Silva
Photography by: Jimmy Mendieta
Translation by: Claudia Vallejos/Jeffrey Mendieta
Copyright 2012 Jimmy Mendieta. All rights reserved.“This is the image of Santiago that by the streets of the Jinotepen July strolls its wondering gaze of marine horizon, searching in the neighborhood’s and street corners what he there did not lose: a green bell of algae, like born from the sea, with a twang like a marimba that only knows how to cry. It’s a prodigious image of strength and tenderness; its face is the loneliness, the space, the distance, it’s the prow that survives in the clarity of the waters”. Dr. Armando Luna Silva
Amidst the Nicaraguan land, Jinotepe rises. This noble city is a bundle of friendship and cleanliness. Against its skyline, the towers of the Parish Church rise like a Titan’s arms that guard the image of the Apostle Santiago, Patron Saint of the city. Friar Pedro Agustín Morel de Santa Cruz visited Jinotepe in 1751. In his visit report he describes the people and its Church, and while addressing the people he says: “Santiago is entrusted to you”.
At the start of the century, the good people of the town of Jinotepe felt a nocturnal passion for the stories of apparitions, hauntings and penitent souls. Its dusk was frightful. Lax and unhurried. The shadows came slowly and it was then when ghosts would gain added mobility. In the closed nights of never ending rain, when the ghosts invaded the crevices of the town and the superstitious lighting traversed through the street, the elderly maid of the home would gather the children near the fire burning stove to tell them terrifying tales. And before the astonished gaze of the children and their suspense filled breaths paraded “la carretanagua”, “la cegua”, “la lutuda”, “el cadejo”,… Continue reading
It is in the modest parrochial church of the “Virgen de los Dolores” (Virgin of Sorrows), where the traditional “Tope de los Santos” (meet up of the Saints) is celebrated, which is popularly known simply as “El Tope”. This collection of photos is of the “Tope de Santiago” which took place in July of 2012. All photos are property of Jimmy Donald Mendieta.
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A collection of photos of Casares Beach and its batheing areas. All photos are property of the photographer, Jimmy Donald Mendieta and are available for purchase. There are various print sizes available at http://www.photosofnicaragua.com/buy/23693969_2xMGXX/.
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