Popular Saints

To weigh that the word "saint" remits us to an imaginary Christian, this physique it is characteristic of many other religious beliefs. The identification of the sanctity in each society, you are determined by your history. This way, inside the communities in those that live, people share a communio" "memory on your past and your beliefs. The interpersonal loops, built of that religious shared identity inside the community, they are lived and interpreted through the filter that represent the vision of the world with which each one understands the reality that surround it. This only is not good to understand each other, but rather you also constitute an offered new of faith, through the one which, you are possible to consent and to communicate with god.

This process in which a person intends to participate of the divine grace through the faith and of the devotion, you are characterized by the appearance of a necessity of confirmation. In this sense, the effectiveness of a saint is measured in two aspects. On one hand, in terms of the expectation that the devote one apparent for him; that is to say, the more faith one has in the saint, more effectiveness you are presupposed. For other, a mythical character transforms into saint when you carry out miracles, that is to say, when you solve seemingly impossible problems by means of supernatural powers.

But... How to identify them? Well, leaving of the base that a saint is a mythical character that act for the devote one, as an intermediary between the earthly (material and human) world and the celestial (immaterial and divine) one, thanks to the miracles that it carry out. The reports and the religious practices that describe the saint's revelations in issue (half human hero and at the same time, half divine), are evidence of your power. In the case of the Catholic or orthodox saints, the faithful ones interpret those myths and rituals as exemplary models to continue. This way, the believer is identified with the saint being about incorporating your behavior model, represented by the one on the way to the revelation trafficked by this. On the other hand, the playback of these reports and rituals have a superimposed feature: you refresh the faith of the devote one, at the same time that you popularize the custom of adoring the saint. However, this identification depends on the legal capacity or image that the saint transmits. Such you are the case of the religious physiques of European medieval tradition, as San Jorge or San Cristóbal, two very different fellows. While the first were a warring saint, with a tragic outcome, but with a joyful life of being able to and ascending line among your pairs, of the second is related that you were a giant rejected by your town that he/she lived isolated in the mountains being earned a living helping people to cross a river. The one expressed is one of the reasons for those that, at the present time, this type of saints has taken away from the popular preference to be changed by other nearer ones to people's history and more concerned for your concrete problems.

Those are today's popular saints, a novel and different phenomenon that, of course, you continue cohabiting with the most orthodox devotion for the Catholic saints, some of those which, they continue capturing people's majority interest, like you are the famous case of San Cayetano in Argentina, among many others.

Miraculous medals

Medals that are not only used exist like decoration, but rather they bring luck in what you/they refer to them. These are some examples of these miraculous" "medals.
The guardian angel's medal:
This medal, as you tell it your name, you attract the guardian angel's protection from the person to who give it to him. For that reason, you are very communio that give it to children, and if the material with which you are made you are better gold, because all your life will last next to him. If the person is already mature or the boy is already in stage of understanding, you are good to pray you so that your angel always accompanies him.

Medal of San Benito:
San Benito was a sentence man and severe discipline, in and of itself many monks of monks in your time tried to murder it, receiving frequent attacks. Then, this Saint will protect who possess your image of abstractions, frauds and sins. You also alleviate pains and you help in the pregnancy.

Medal with a scarab:
This insect was adored by the Egyptians, recording it in many of your constructions, since this amulet, protected them of the bad spirits. As divine emblem, you represented Khopri, the levant sun that arise every morning after ending the night. This animalito protects of the hazards and of the death. You are also good because you are a good guide to be successful in the transitions.
Medal of San Cristóbal:
San Cristóbal takes care of the salesmen of any class, either tourists, drivers, and other.
After to serve the devil and to desert, this character with a stature and enormous force, wanted to search the boy Jesús. Without knowing it, one day saw a defenseless boy that wanted to cross a river and you helped him to make it. When you went for half of the same one, the boy's weight in your shoulders you unbearable tornaba. You were there when the petty one admitted to be the designer of the world, and for ende the weight that took with him was the weight of the whole world. And to help him, you gave you your name and the don that to who helped, he/she would be making it with the one.

The virgin's miraculous medal:
This medal mentions to Sister's appearance Catalina in 1830, in France. From that then, had grown every day more the expansion and Our lady's of the Miraculous Medal broadcast.

Legend Black of the Shepherding

his is a sad history... nobody knows if it is actual, but all they count it as if it was it. Today, the black of the shepherding is an amulet of the luck that is good to find lost things and to be protected of the wrongs. Let us begin with the start, when the black was a petty boy in the flesh...

There for 1871, there was in Uruguay a rich farmer (some say that it was Portuguese, other Spanish one), owner of a great sheepfold of sheep and several slaves. Among their servitude he/she was an about 12 year-old black, that had as task to take care of the gentleman's sheep. That was the famous Black of the Shepherding. They count that it was very flaquito for their age, and that he/she had some big and sad eyes.

Every day, the petty black went out with the sheepfold to search a place of tender grass for the sheep. There the whole day passed, until it arrived the night and the black, tired and hungry, returned to its homestead. He/she never complained. A summer afternoon, the black always made the routine, and it took to the sheep to the green grass. But the heat of that day was unbearable, so the petty slave was thrown to the shade of an ombú to be protected of so much sun. But unintentionally, it was sleeping. When he/she opened the eyes, their master was in front of him, extremely angry for the inattention. Where are my sheep?, they say that he/she screamed him/her. The black didn't know what to tell him/her, but imagining that it will be flogged with force, he/she asked for forgiveness. Where are my sheep?, it continued screaming the master, more and more angry. The sheep were close, because the black grieves he/she had slept some minutes. So after walking some steps, the boy found the sheepfold that he pastured peacefully. Alleviated the petty slave was when the master realized something: it lacked a lamb, a black lamb as him that accidentally was the favorite of their master.

The black of the shepherding offered to search it forthwith, but the master was so angry that he decided to punish him without at least to give him/her the opportunity to search it. He/she thought of flogging it until the fatigue, but he/she was happened a better idea of punishing him, or rather, much worse. Without the black opposed submitted, the master it tied it to some stakes that it arranged above an anthill. And he/she left it there. The end of the history is obvious: the black died, itched by the ants and roasted by the sun. Newly to the three days of that horrible tragedy, some troperos that happened over there found it dead.

From then on, the Black of the Shepherding transformed into martyr, and its history passes from a generation to another. Their image was transformed in prints and in an amulet that many take hung up of the neck. Every time that gets lost something, the black is who he/she makes miracles so that the lost object appears. And the certain thing is that he/she appears, the same as that black lamb that was simply to some meters beyond the sheepfold, being protected, the same as the black, under the shade of a tree.