Fidencio, Niño
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Birthname | Fidencio Constatino | ||||
born on | 13 November 1898 at 17:00 (= 5:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Irámuco, Mexico, 19n57, 100w55 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m100w55 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
Mexican curandero (traditional Native healer) revered today by the Fidencista Christian Church. The Catholic Church does not recognize his official status as a saint, but his following has extended through the northern part of Mexico and the southwest of United States. This situation allows El Niño Fidencio to be recognized as a folk saint.
While in elementary school, he met Father Segura, as well as Enrique López de la Fuente, who was the janitor as well as his friend, and later, his protector. They both worked to help the priest with religious services, and it was at this time that Fidencio learned to work with herbs and how to cure.
He died on 19 October 1938, aged 39.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield cites birth record quoted in El Niño Fidencio y el fidencismo (Ediciones Oasis, 1974), p. 12: "Acta número 86 ochenta y seis. — CONSTANTINO FIDENCIO.— En Irámuco a las 3 tres de la tarde del día 18 diez y ocho de Noviembre de 1898 mil ochocientos noventa y ocho. Ante mí Ciudadano Filiberto Navarrete Agente del Estado Civil de este Pueblo compareció en la oficina el Ciudadano Socorro Constantino no indígena de 40 cuarenta años casado jornalero originario del rancho del Monte de los Juárez jurisdicción de Yuriria y vecino del Rancho de las Cuevas de esta demarcación y dijo: que como a las 5 cinco de la tarde del día 13 del actual nació un niño que lleva por nombre Fidencio Constantino..."
(Certificate number 86 eighty-six. - CONSTANTINO FIDENCIO.- In Irámuco at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of 18 November 1898. Before me Citizen Filiberto Navarrete Agent of the Civil Status of this Town appeared in the office the Citizen Socorro Constantino non-indigenous 40-year-old married day laborer from the ranch of the Mount of Juarez jurisdiction of Yuriria and neighbour of the Rancho de las Cuevas of this demarcation and He said that at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th of the present month, a child named Fidencio Constantino was born ...).
Categories
- Vocation : Healing Fields : Alternative methods ("Curandero": traditional Native healer)
- Vocation : Religion : Saint/ Stigmatist (Folk saint)