Jocotepec will fall into the grip of two straight weeks of unbridled festivity starting next Monday as the townspeople renew their devotion to spiritual patron El Señor del Monte (The Lord of the Mount).
The celebration changes dates from year to year so that final day invariably falls on third Sunday in January. It begins this time on Monday, January 7 with the solemn Juramento, a collective renovation of vows of faith dedicated to the Crucified Christ as represented by the figure of the Señor del Monte. Devotion stems from answered prayers following lethal outbreaks of cholera that hit the town in 1833 and 1850, and the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.
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