... Indians shrine creole El Cobre Oriente ...

... respect Ochún spiritism El Cobre Pope Benedict XVI ...

... Fulgencio Batista Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes Fidel Castro carnival El Cobre ...

... The political instability of late 1950s Cuba occasioned many anguished appeals to the Virgin. As Fidel Castro’s rebels took up positions in the mountains of eastern Cuba to combat Batista’s army, El Cobre was the site of some skirmishes, damaging the Virgin’s shrine. Cuban political discord...

... anguished appeals to the Virgin. As Fidel Castro’s rebels took up positions in the mountains of eastern Cuba to combat Batista’s army, El Cobre was the site of some skirmishes, damaging the Virgin’s shrine. Cuban political discord and civil war often transpired in the streets: the Batista regime alternately...

... This chapter recaps the historiography of accounts of the finding of the Virgin’s effigy in 1612 in eastern Cuba, and the subsequent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century growth of her cult among Indians and then the enslaved African and black creole miners in El Cobre who constructed her shrines...

...Cuba Profunda, 1612–1927 This chapter recaps the historiography of accounts of the finding of the Virgin’s effigy in 1612 in eastern Cuba, and the subsequent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century growth of her cult among Indians and then the enslaved African and black creole miners in El Cobre...

... This chapter relates the accounts of elderly Cuban women of street processions that occurred during religious festivals held before the 1959 Revolution, when they carried an effigy of Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, a local advocation of the Virgin Mary, with them through...

... speeches became institutionalized events for demonstrating, producing, and reproducing political support for the new policies of the revolutionary government. The Virgin’s original El Cobre image was (again) brought to Havana, this time for the National Catholic Congress of 1959, and this chapter...

... in the street. respect Ochún spiritism El Cobre Pope Benedict XVI ...

... and streets to hear Fidel Castro’s speeches became institutionalized events for demonstrating, producing, and reproducing political support for the new policies of the revolutionary government. The Virgin’s original El Cobre image was (again) brought to Havana, this time for the National Catholic Congress...