Great Pilgrimage Feast of the Lord of Huanca

Great Pilgrimage Feast of the Lord of Huanca. The pilgrimage of the Lord of Huanca is an important celebration.

Which it takes place in Cusco and whose central date on 14 September. It is a journey that town.

The faithful devotees of the Lord made from different villages to the very Shrine located in a place that responds to the name of Piedra Negra Huata.

Brief history.

There are different stories about the origin of this Christ who have appeared in the seventeenth century.

The most prominent of the stories that one day an Indian named Diego, who was tired of the abuse from their employers (some say it was mine) decided to escape them.

It was then that Diego came to Huanca where prayed all day and all night not to be found.

It is said that when night fell this Indian had an epiphany in front of him was a Christ Bleeding.

The man then filled with emotion and decided to call a painter.

One of the highlights of the people to immortalize the image he had seen in stone.

The painter who brought did its work and looked, they say, that a divine hand guiding each of his strokes.

In order to perform accurate depiction of the suffering Christ that Diego had observed.

It is said that the cult remained secret for a few years and that the Lord was worshiped by the natives.

Later.

Following subsequent stories narrated in the eighteenth century, a miner named Pedro Valero.

Who did not live in the Cusco seriously ill, tell stories that no one gave him cure his bad until one day a strange doctor who managed to save the man.

Don Pedro grateful, he asked the man who asked what he wanted to let all their gold at their disposal.

But the man was not interested in riches, then Don Pedro insisting on payment for this single doctor told him if he wanted to thank outside Cusco to visit him in a town called Huaca and he was called Enmanuel and then disappeared.

Don Pedro went to the Cusco shortly thereafter, but no one could give reasons about the doctor called Emmanuel.

The mine remained in the city for some time, but continue to have results.

The story goes that one day, when he was about to leave he saw that some people were bringing quality firewood.

Curious question the site of origin to what the Indians answered that Huanca.

Don Pedro surprised by the response asks men to guide it up there, what indigenous reply that they will, but nobody lives there.

The miner reaches Huanca and indeed no living people on the site, Don Pedro then discovers the stone cover guarece the image of the Holy Lord.

With his own hands and discover the image surprised it is in the representation of the doctor who saved his life.

It is said that since the fame of the Lord of Huanca increased surpassing the indigenous cult.

He had received until then and congregating, as now, thousands of faithful to their meeting place.

Great Pilgrimage Feast of the Lord of Huanca. Also check Celebration of the Day of Pachamama in Cusco.