Iglesia Las Nazarenas

This guide to Iglesia Las Nazarenas in Lima centers on Josefa Marmanillo, an enslaved woman known as Dona Pepa, paralyzed in both arms, who dragged herself before the painted Christ on this wall and made a vow for her healing. It follows the dream she had that night and the recipe that came out of it, and traces the mural itself back to the earthquake of 1655 that leveled the surrounding settlement of Pachacamilla around it. You'll hear how one wall survived and became the seed of the church standing here today. Listen for how the neighborhood's name and the painting's story became tangled together over the following centuries.