Don Pedro Jaramillo

Don Pedro Jaramillo
Don Pedro Jaramillo, curandero faith healer from South Texas
El Mero Jefe, Healer of Los Olmos, Curandero, Healer
BornGuadalajara, Mexico
Died1907
Starr County, Texas
Venerated inFolk Catholicism
PatronageCures, good health, fortune, healing, protection from diseases

Don Pedro Jaramillo was a curandero and folk saint from the South Texas Valley region. He was known as "the healer of Los Olmos Creek" and "el mero jefe" (English: the real chief) of the curanderos.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Dorson, Richard M. (August 1972). Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States. University of Chicago Press. pp. 418, 419. ISBN 0-226-15862-4.
  2. ^ West, John (May 2007). Mexican-American Folklore. August House. ISBN 978-0-87483-059-0.
  3. ^ Silverthorne, Elizabeth (1997). Women Pioneers in Texas Medicine. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-789-X.
  4. ^ Torres, Eliseo (2006). Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition. UNM Press. ISBN 0826339611.

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