"The
feast is a catharsis, a burst, a crack, a way
of overcoming the shame, the shyness and the isolation.
The guardian saints chair the party; San Caralampio,
San Sebastián, San Andrés, San Juan
and Jesus Christ, who is carried by the peasants,
lying down in his cross, which has become a sedan
chair. Historically, the religious feasts in México
are an essential part of life, they reveal who
we are because people relieve their inhibitions
there."
Elena
Poniatowska
(Introduction fragment)
