Resumen

DE ANGEL-GARCIA, David. Appropriation of the Figure of St. Diego de Alcalá by a Mayan Community of Campeche. LiminaR [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.1, pp.137-156. ISSN 2007-8900.

This paper attempts to illustrate some of the mechanisms implemented by the peninsular Mayans inhabiting Nunkiní, Campeche, to appropriate the figure of St. Diego de Alcala, who serves as the patron saint of the population. To do this, based on ethnographic data and oral testimony, I will address three areas in which they show the profound changes and re-elaborations that this entity has been suffering since making his arrival to Nunkiní. That way I intend to show how a sacred character, originally strange to the indigenous cultural universe, went on to become a deity with Mesoamerican characteristics and strong local identity.

Palabras llave : Peninsular Mayans; patron saint; religion; oral tradition; miracles.