Hi tod @ God bless where want each of you this, ... I saw a page that was in the group of Canaguá Merida and saw this link and I thought super nice and are nice and positive things you have to show for our culture will continue to maintain over time.
Source: http://www.lasrecetasolvidadas.com/
Peoples of the South.
Peoples of the South are located in Venezuela, the Andes, and more precisely in the south of Merida state. Is geographic region includes the municipalities Aricagua, Archbishop Chacón, Guaraque, Padre Noguera and southern municipalities of Campo Elias, Libertador, Sucre, Antonio Pinto Salinas.
Year 1813. The paths of distant mountains untamable bring the good news of freedom. The five eagles Don Tulio undertake its highest winds libertarians flight of the majestic mountains, leaving in its most sublime praise song with the title "Liberator" is the passage of Bolívar, which together with a multitude of Quixote prepares to visit the city built on top of Mt. Admirable Campaign of courage, sacrifice, struggle for leaving unshakable planted on the highest of the cities of the country a dream of equality, justice and brotherhood.
But beyond the mountain Mérida, nestled amid towering mountains and bathed by the river, with their air of plain, sits the historic Mucuchachí. Your name and speaks of Indian people, as for the September 4, 1597, was known as the Valle de Mukaria, or doctrine of the land of orchids Aricagua. With its rugged landscape as sacred relics preserved remains of indigenous mucuchaches, far from any spread of the English civil influence.
The chronicle tells us about native indoctrinated by the Augustinian missionaries who came from Aricagua. And as the first cure of souls, Fray Pedro de Mendoza. Evangelism was the most genuine accent, thanks to distant ravages of colonization, the native Southern received the missionary change undoubtedly become a parent, teacher, brother and traveling companion. With his hand on the crucifix and the preaching of the lips, it was double-edged sword to show the unknown: the mysteries of faith. But also in the whip and made calls "voice of the voiceless."
So the story is recorded in the first days of January, the wonderful 1813, when he had not yet stepped Bolivar Merida Brig. In the Southern soil was not known in detail the beginning of his campaign admirable, but in the heart the cure of Morro, Jose Luis Ovalle, a preacher of the Good News of this vast territory, awaiting a strong feeling of love for the homeland torn and devastated by the abuses of the Crown. His deep priestly vocation took him to remain faithful to fulfilling the mission of the Messiah: "to free the captives." With its greatest weapon: The Word of God and the illustrious testimony of an actual apostle of Christ. " In his sermons penetrated deep into the souls of the faithful the libertarian dream.
investiture was not military or military laurels, but if relevant Franciscan humility, passion for his people, fidelity to the Church and commitment to the poorest. As apocalyptic lightning lit up the noble souls of believers peasants. His prophetic voice made him the John the Baptist who prepared the way to the Liberator. The atmosphere is spring, the sun shines in all its splendor, but also ran the devastating news of battle-hardened troops commanded by General Contreras dancers moved from south of Merida. In the mind of the Venerable priest, spent perhaps images of death, darkness, sadness and desolation. But his heart bursting with the divine force that made the apostle of the mountain, with skill, enthusiasm and readiness to win the crown of glory that never fades, with the courage of giving the country enough to sacrifice their own lives, managed to gather in the valleys of Santa Bella three hundred parishioners. As the biblical scene of people walking through the desert, small before the greatness of Pharaoh, but great temporary hand and outstretched arm of the Lord. So these faithful were led by the heroic coat.
Passing through this village was bound. Flat roads of the hill, rising Cabestrero and carrier, dreams and hopes. Times after they have passed by Queen Urbina with their coveted treasures. Was on January 30, 1813, before daybreak, the priest José Luis Ovalle invoked the Mother of Pilar sky blessed his army, beat the holy scapular who served as their armor, guns in hand and with a single shout: Liberty! Broke into the monastic silence of the mountain, a warrior powder Humar saw the villagers, who joined the Patriots came up Acequias. They were one team under the firm control of the minister of the altar, soon the hand of the Lord of hosts enabled the disastrous defeat at the royalist troops. Humiliated and could not desecrate the sacred soil of the tattooed one hundred and fourteen days after the General would step liberator of thirty years. The cry of freedom Mucuchachí Campaign was then the first greeting victorious guns Merida province anticipated the laurels fresh from combat.
The hero of the cloth was fortunate to be numbered among the heroic patriots who received the freedom from Merida's town hall. Their eyes glistened with the illusion of seeing that person's soul Caracas big and bright as the January sky in the southern night of his fight. Some letters written in the repose of the soul, they realized the liberator of his achievement and his visions of the future predicted a new birth for America: the independence of their children. Bolivar document sent May 26, 1813, in a letter union President Camilo Torres began with the excited phrases: " I have the honor to enclose to Your Excellency the enclosed statement that the priest José Luis Ovalle, parish priest of El Morro in this province has given the state of Venezuela . Your Excellency will see that is more favorable than may have the fortune: Monte Verde at large: Cumana in the hands of a thousand parishioners, the people in insurrection and the English forces in the last degree of weakness. O Excellency, who does not fly to the aid of our brothers who fight for freedom. And what must be our pain if we are late, after so many sacrifices, or if they succumb for lack of our aid. "Perennial testimony of heroism and love for the homeland of the village priest. With the name "white stone column" will be remembered forever, on the hill of Santa Bella, the cry of liberty in our land surmerideño.
