The 1835 cholera epidemic and the Señor de los Milagros in Lima

Record summary

During nineteenth-century epidemics, Lima’s Señor de los Milagros devotion was associated with penitence, public prayer and protective processions. Accounts linked to the 1835 cholera outbreak can be examined as evidence of how residents interpreted disease, mortality and communal ritual. This lead matters for comparison with other epidemic miracle claims because it permits parallel reading of medical explanations, civic restrictions and devotional testimony. The exact role of the image in the 1835 outbreak, however, should be established from dated newspapers, confraternity records and church sources rather than assumed from later annual-procession histories.