Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic in old Lima, never free-flowing, backed up for blocks. Lima's police fought to keep the crowds in hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...
Every Latin land has its patrons and its saints. Peru, already blessed with Santa Rosa, has had Our Lord of Miracles since October 1746, when an earthquake destroyed Lima. Only one wall, the wall of a little church in the city's poorest quarter, was left standing, and on it was a painting of the Christ, made by a nameless mulatto. Word of the miraculous preservation swept the ruins, and masses of people crowding around the wall started the first procession. As the procession advanced-so legend says-the earth stopped quaking...
...Church of the Nazarenas was built around the wall, and the painting, set in a gorgeous silver mounting, was elevated like Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe for all to see. Each year the image of Our Lord of Miracles was borne in procession on visits to other Lima churches. The poorer classes made the festivity their own, and a brotherhood grew up, now numbering some 3,000, to organize the procession and above all, to carry the heavy litter with Our Lord of Miracles...
Food for the Devout. It was the people's parade. At one point the mayor, by tradition, set his shoulder to the timber, helped carry the image. Just behind the penitents ranged vendederos, hawking soft drinks and Lima's best cakes...
With the know-how under his hat and the dyes and designs in his work bag, Bailey set up a laboratory-workshop in suburban Lima. Using workmen whom he and his blonde Peruvian artist-colleague Grace Escardo trained themselves, Bailey was soon producing a great variety of cleanly designed, finely wrought textiles, lacquer-work, silver, wooden utensils, even furniture...