Holy Child of the Little Peanut

So they said a Santo Niño had been found inside a peanut…

The chapel of Santo Niño del Cacahuatito in Mezquitic de la Magdalena, a population of about 3000 inhabitants located 4 kilometers from the city of San Juan, which has become the third population that more pilgrims receive in the region of Altos de Jalisco.

In the process of digging a well, they found a sculpture of the Baby Jesus, five centimeters high; it is worth mentioning that the image of the Child God was carved in wood and mud, with one arm on the chest and the other on the belly, both glued to the body.

According to the story, this happened at the beginning of the year 1810 and in those times, the inhabitants of Mezquitic, were very Catholic like the rest of the Country, and it is for this reason, it was decided that in the land a hermitage was built in honor of the Holy Child of Mezquitic.

In 1884 the Archbishop Pedro Loza and Pardavé gave some dispositions and the hermitage was built, less than two years later was ready to be able to celebrate mass in her, which was authorized in June of 1886. In those times the people already began to say that the water of the well where was found the image of the Holy Child was miraculous, and that is why the archbishop provided three things:

1.- Not to be called “miraculous” to the water of the well.

2.- That the original image was not put on display, since it was considered inappropriate by its size, and better replaced by a similar but larger image.

3. That the chapel should not be dedicated to the Holy Child, but to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The problem was that in those days Father Luis Lozano died, so none of the 3 provisions were applied.

Now, the name of Niño del Cacahuatito, comes from Mr. Francisco Padilla de Luna, who in 1994 began to spread images of the child labeled Niño del Cacahuatito, alluding to its size and taking advantage of that in Mezquitic peanuts were grown. This is why urban legends began to circulate that the image of Santo Niño had been found inside a peanut.