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San Lázaro Cuba
valérie baeriswyl
Dec 17, 2021
Location: La Havane
Weeks after the removal of flight restrictions in its fight against covid, the Cuban island commemorates San Lazaro. This tradition dating back more than a century, brings together thousands of pilgrims every December 17 in El Rícòn, a small village on the outskirts of Havana. According to the Catholic tradition of the island, this Saint (the most revered) attributed to the biblical character Lazarus resurrected by Jesus Christ, is the healer of leprosy diseases. Its sanctuary also houses a hospital that once provided care for lepers. The Catholic faithful are not the only ones claiming San Lazaro. The latter, who is also called Balalú Ayé in the Afro-Cuban religious tradition, is part of the Yoruba pantheon which brings together deities of African origin inherited from the colonial past of the island, hence a syncretism between Catholicism and Santeria ( Afro-Cuban) at each annual commemoration of San Lazaro.
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