During the month of October close to two million people, most of them dressed in purple, filled the streets of downtown Lima to celebrate the "Lord of Miracles", the most popular religious icon in the country. The icon kept in Lima's Nazarenas church is worshiped by a multitude of people united by the common hope that the Lord will protect them.
In 1651 an Angolan slave painted a picture of a colored Jesus Christ crucified on a wall. Four years later on Nov 13, 1655, an earthquake struck Lima. It leveled most of the city, but that image of Jesus was undamaged. It's believed that this image has been the occasion of many miracles. Since the 18th century a religious brotherhood has arrange annual processions in the honor of the Lord of the Miracles in the month of October, when male devotees organized in squads, carry the icon through the streets of central Lima.
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