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00:01:52One morning in the dawn, before the work in the fields had begun, Juan Diego took his mother, Esperanza, to visit the wise woman of Santiago.
00:02:02The mother was heavy toward birth, and she wished to know early whether it would be boy child or girl child, beautiful or ugly, fortunate or damned.
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00:02:17Trini, the wise woman, welcomed them to her little stone house, where she merchandised in herbs and amulets and magic.
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00:02:34Come, seek yourself, said Trini.
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00:02:46I'll give you the future, black or white.
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00:02:51I'll cast it in the black and white corn.
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00:02:55Pick out the corn, black for your boy children, white for the girls.
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00:03:07Then Trini blessed the corn.
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00:03:10She took it and chanted, corn of our lives, gift and giver, food of the body, feed thou now the mind and the memory, speak to this mother.
00:03:21And she traced the future in the corn of prophecy.
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00:03:34Boy child, born living and strong.
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00:03:48Trini cast the corn again, and traced again.
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00:03:54You are indeed the mother of luck.
00:03:57Your boy child will be beautiful and fortunate.
00:04:00Now you will pay for the fortune.
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00:04:06Juan Diego brought in a chicken for payment.
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00:04:17It is a skinny chicken for a fat fortune.
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00:04:23The mother paid extra for the fine of prophecy.
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00:04:32The wise woman gave her then a gift without payment, a bird of luck.
00:04:37A hummingbird dressed in colored magic thread to ease the pains and prod the fortune on.
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00:04:55The mother and Juan Diego came back into the village of Santiago with their great good news, with a prophecy and a magic bird of luck.
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00:05:09A boy child it will be, a child of beauty.
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00:05:18See, I have the bird of fortune.
00:05:20My child will be a man child, handsome and lucky.
00:05:24Trini has promised a boy, beauty and fortune and a boy.
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00:05:35And the whole village was glad for Esperanza.
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00:05:50They came to their home where the children were.
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00:06:08You will have a little brother, a new little brother.
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00:06:25In the hot white light of the morning, Juan Diego went to the cornfield for it was late and the work went on without him.
00:06:34He went first to his father with the news.
00:06:37You will be the father of a new son, my father.
00:06:40My father said it is good to have sons who can work in the corn.
00:06:44God is good.
00:06:45I have already three good sons, little Paco, Juan Diego and Carlos.
00:06:53Now I will have four.
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00:07:06Bound in bundles, a big bundle for the father and a big bundle for Juan Diego.
00:07:11Carlos has a smaller load and even little Paco as much as he can carry.
00:07:16Everyone must eat and everyone must have his burden, even Paco.
00:07:21The corn cannot wait for birth or death.
00:07:24The corn is life itself, holy and clean.
00:07:28With corn they rent the land the corn grows on.
00:07:31With corn they buy clothing and salt and chili.
00:07:36The animals will eat the stalks.
00:07:38Father and sons, mother and daughters will eat, will sell, will live.
00:07:43The corn, the ripe and yellow corn cut and piled and carried, loved and prayed for.
00:07:51Into this corn there is life.
00:07:54When the corn is gone, only hunger and sorrow.
00:07:58For the corn is life itself.
00:08:05They bore the corn down from mountain fields and into the village of Santiago
00:08:09and the skirts of the hill.
00:08:11And they took the corn first to the house of the landowners
00:08:14for the owners had first choice of half the crop.
00:08:23It is heavy, the father said, but soon I will have a new son.
00:08:27You are the lucky one, four sons, imagine that.
00:08:30You are a great man, Benjamin.
00:08:34They divided the corn, this to us.
00:08:40The father protested the division as he always did.
00:08:44And Juan Diego said, it will be one more month to feed.
00:08:48We should have more of our own corn now.
00:08:52The owner said, what does a boy know of men?
00:08:55Come, we will drink to the new son and to many more.
00:08:58That is how men do.
00:09:00You are a great man, Ventura.
00:09:02You are a great man, Ventura.
00:09:19Then Juan Diego called his brothers to go to school for the day was passing.
00:09:23And they left the men to do as great men do.
00:09:32The boys came to the schoolyard and were prepared for learning.
00:09:38Juan Diego talked to his friend, the schoolteacher.
00:10:02The children began the day with a song about their beautiful land.
00:10:32I want my land, no one can find it.
00:10:38Without papaya, without mangoes, and without bananas.
00:10:47Without papaya, without mangoes, and without bananas.
00:10:57Late in the afternoon, the whole family prepared the corn.
00:11:01For the next day was market day at a nearby town.
00:11:04They must sell their corn.
00:11:06They talked about the next day at the market.
00:11:31And so they were excited by the day that had passed and for the day that was to come.
00:12:01The next day, Juan Diego and his brothers went to the market.
00:12:05They bought some corn.
00:12:07They bought some corn.
00:12:09They bought some corn.
00:12:11They bought some corn.
00:12:13They bought some corn.
00:12:15They bought some corn.
00:12:17They bought some corn.
00:12:19They bought some corn.
00:12:21They bought some corn.
00:12:23They bought some corn.
00:12:25They bought some corn.
00:12:27They bought some corn.
00:12:29They bought some corn.
00:12:31They bought some corn.
00:12:33They bought some corn.
00:12:35They bought some corn.
00:12:37They bought some corn.
00:12:39They bought some corn.
00:12:41They bought some corn.
00:12:43They bought some corn.
00:12:45They bought some corn.
00:12:47They bought some corn.
00:12:49They bought some corn.
00:12:51They bought some corn.
00:12:53They bought some corn.
00:12:55They bought some corn.
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00:13:14Very early in the morning, the people started off to the market.
00:13:18There would be music, they knew, and shows and suites for the children.
00:13:22Gossip and news for the father and mother.
00:13:24The corn would be sold, and the little money coming in.
00:13:28Market day is a good day for everyone.
00:13:34Little streams of people from the villages
00:13:36swell to a river on the main roads.
00:13:43And the roads led the people to the market towns.
00:13:50Chilies and beans and corn.
00:13:55The people bargained with the mother for the corn.
00:14:09Paco was sick with a stomach cramp,
00:14:11and he stayed with the mother.
00:14:24But the others walked among the wonders of the market.
00:14:45Hats and ropes and handkerchiefs,
00:14:51all for sale, all bargained for.
00:14:54Belts and pots and rice, toys of the country.
00:15:12And little shows for thrown pennies.
00:16:42But Paco was sick and did not love the market.
00:16:54They tried to cheer him up.
00:17:12They tempted him to health with a new hat.
00:17:34But Paco was sick.
00:17:59In the night at home, Paco was sick and cold.
00:18:02And Juan Diego warned him and watched over him.
00:18:32The wise woman came to cure him in the morning.
00:18:45The treaty came with herbs and magic.
00:19:06It is the heirs, she said, the bitter heirs.
00:19:09They have gone to live in his stomach.
00:19:13I will prepare an ancient cure.
00:19:15My grandfather had it from his grandfather and he from his.
00:19:20Here the herb and here the egg.
00:19:26The evil heirs love the egg.
00:19:29I will draw them, trap them with it.
00:19:33Be patient, Paco, the mother said.
00:19:36You will soon be well.
00:19:38Come to the egg.
00:19:40Come, little pains, into the egg.
00:20:03Now I have them caught in the egg.
00:20:11I will show you.
00:20:12See, there they are.
00:20:14Now you will be well.
00:20:30Juan Diego heard the talk at the well, heard how other children were sickening with the
00:20:37same pain as little Paco had.
00:20:58The women were frightened for the children.
00:21:23Juan Diego went to see his friend, the teacher, the only man in Santiago who had been to the
00:21:28outside world.
00:21:29Juan Diego said, you know, many children are sick.
00:21:33I know what the teacher said.
00:21:37They say it is the heirs.
00:21:39No, I think it is the water, the teacher said.
00:21:42I think the germs are in the village well.
00:21:49I can go, but I do not know enough.
00:21:51I can only try to help them.
00:22:14Paco was stiff with pain, and he was fevered.
00:22:40The mother said, Trini is curing him.
00:22:53She has an ancient cure.
00:22:55No, we do not like these new things.
00:22:58It is not the heirs, my mother.
00:23:01Here in the doctor book it tells of the germs, the little animals that cause it.
00:23:04The heirs, the little animals, what difference?
00:23:07Trini knows.
00:23:08She will cure it.
00:23:09But for now, Paco will soon be well.
00:23:29It is not the heirs, the teacher said.
00:23:31It is the water.
00:23:32The well is contaminated.
00:23:34The father said Trini will cure it, whatever it is.
00:23:38What is this nonsense, these new things, these young men who tell their elders?
00:23:47You will kill the people with your new foolishness.
00:23:49So the egg did not cure.
00:24:11Well, I have another cure, a better one.
00:24:18We will draw the pains downward to his feet.
00:24:48We will suck the pains outward from his belly.
00:25:13We will draw the airs up to his temples and loosen.
00:25:33Now he will be well again.
00:25:38Now he will be well again.
00:26:08Now he will be well again.
00:26:28Paco is now a little saint, gone straight to heaven without sin or sorrow, without shame
00:26:45or burden.
00:26:46The neighbors came and danced all night, as they always do.
00:26:53It is not good to be sad at such a time.
00:27:16The neighbors danced all night in the room with the little saint.
00:27:20Only the family was sad.
00:27:50The neighbors danced all night in the room with the little saint.
00:28:00Only the family was sad.
00:28:01The neighbors danced all night in the room with the little saint.
00:28:21The neighbors danced all night in the room with the little saint.
00:28:41The neighbors danced all night in the room with the little saint.
00:29:11A little saint without sin or sorrow, going straight to heaven in his new hat.
00:29:42In the kitchen, father and brothers and sisters waited in the night.
00:29:50Juan Diego read to them from a book.
00:30:12He read how an Indian boy named Juarez became a great man and president of all Mexico.
00:30:18And he read how in this one Indian become president was bound the promise that all the
00:30:23people would someday be free and happy.
00:30:34They listened, half believing to the story.
00:30:41And the family waited.
00:30:49In the next room, the wise woman worked her magic.
00:30:53But the mother was shocked by the loss of one child to early labor on another.
00:31:23Now he is forming.
00:31:47Now he is ready.
00:31:49Now he has hands.
00:31:51Now he has eyes.
00:31:52Now he is forming.
00:31:57Now we will press him and urge his birth.
00:32:07When the birth was near, they awakened the father to give strength and comfort to the mother.
00:32:38Between his knees he held her.
00:32:40He braced against her pain.
00:32:49Now he is formed.
00:32:50Now he is ready.
00:32:52Be of good courage.
00:32:53I am with you.
00:32:58Be of good courage.
00:33:00I am with you.
00:33:13He is formed.
00:33:14He is born.
00:33:16He is here.
00:33:38He is here.
00:33:48In the morning, the family welcomed a new baby.
00:33:59He was a boy child and beautiful.
00:34:03And he had hurried to be born on the feast day of his own village of Santiago.
00:34:08His name would be Santiago.
00:34:10He must be fortunate with such a name.
00:34:14And he was very beautiful.
00:34:25They sent up rockets for the little fiesta of Santiago.
00:34:42People congratulated the father on his new son and on the prophecy.
00:34:47The father was a great and happy man on that day.
00:34:50There was pulque to drink and everyone was happy.
00:35:05In front of the church, the people celebrated and danced the ancient war of Spaniards and Moors.
00:35:13They enacted out a battle between peoples they did not know in a land they had never heard of in a time that was forgotten.
00:35:44And the people enjoyed the death of the king of the Moors as they did every year.
00:36:09But many children were sick and the fiesta did not cure them.
00:36:19And the white headbands of the wise woman were everywhere.
00:36:28And more children were sick and the people of Santiago were frightened.
00:36:36They saw the saints and the Christ in procession.
00:36:49Our guardians look on the sadness of thy village.
00:36:54Look on the children.
00:37:00Save us from the sorrow.
00:37:03Save us from the sin we have committed that we may repent.
00:37:07Save us from the sorrow.
00:37:09Look on thy people and thy village.
00:37:15Look on the sinless children dying for our sins.
00:37:19Save us from the sorrow.
00:37:22Save us, Santiago. Save us, Lord Jesus.
00:37:32The teacher in Juan Diego had borrowed an old kerosene lamp projector and film from the federal school of the neighboring market town.
00:37:41It was a strange and wonderful object to them.
00:37:44And they prepared to show the people of Santiago what caused the sickness and how the children could be cured.
00:38:15They wrote a petition to the medical authorities in the distant capital.
00:38:30The serum from an infected horse can cure the children.
00:38:34Horses' blood, the landowner said.
00:38:38Are we animals? Are we horses, dogs, or rats?
00:38:42What is this horse's blood?
00:38:45What is this new nonsense?
00:38:48This horse blood.
00:38:50We want to help you, not to hurt you, the teacher said.
00:38:54The men of science are working to cure the children.
00:39:06Now you have seen the cause of the sickness and you have seen the cure.
00:39:14The men of science work to help you.
00:39:23If you were the teacher, the doctors will come and cure the children that way.
00:39:30Do not like, do you, friends?
00:39:33The children are dying. The wise woman cannot cure them.
00:39:37Listen to the teacher, he knows.
00:39:39I am tired of babies telling their elders, cried the landowner.
00:39:44I am tired of these new things, this horse blood.
00:39:56At the house, the little sister Maria had taken the illness.
00:40:17The wise woman brought another ancient cure for her.
00:40:20One that was oldest and strongest of all.
00:40:24Snake skin to draw the pain.
00:40:58Juan Diego said, they have put a snake skin on my sister.
00:41:02They are using charm.
00:41:05They rejected the petition.
00:41:14What is done, we must do ourselves.
00:41:19I will take the letter to the doctors, Juan Diego said.
00:41:22Juan Diego said, I myself.
00:41:40Then Juan Diego, who had never been more than ten miles from his own village,
00:41:44went out into a strange new world among people he did not know.
00:42:00The babies of my village are dying.
00:42:05The man said the doctors would not come.
00:42:08The village was too far away and it was a waste of time.
00:42:23He was frightened, but he had to go.
00:42:39He walked into a new world.
00:44:39A country that was strange to him.
00:44:54The streets were quiet for order was restored and the day of fighting was over.
00:45:01Buildings fantastic and unbelievable.
00:45:06People whose lives he could not imagine.
00:45:10The city was terrible to him.
00:45:14He was frightened, but the children were sick.
00:45:24He made his way to the hospital.
00:46:07Finally he found his way to the hospital.
00:47:07The doctor said there was no one to send.
00:47:33Medical trucks were out at other villages.
00:47:36The children of Santiago are sick more every day.
00:47:40My own sister, my brother dead.
00:47:42We need your help.
00:47:44We think it is the water.
00:47:45The people go to the wise woman.
00:47:46She says it is the air.
00:47:48She is treating my own sister with a rattlesnake skin.
00:47:52But the children are dying more every day.
00:47:54We do nothing.
00:47:55You can save the children.
00:47:56You must come to Santiago.
00:48:04The old rural service truck and intern and the nurse.
00:48:06Equipment for water test.
00:48:34They came to the village to save the children.
00:49:04She saw them and was afraid for her business.
00:49:22She called the horse blood men are here.
00:49:33The people hid the children from the doctors.
00:50:00Snake skin.
00:50:07This will never cure her.
00:50:32She is very ill.
00:50:59This medicine will reduce the fever.
00:51:01Nothing more.
00:51:08I think I know her illness.
00:51:10But I must see the other sick children before I can be sure.
00:51:14I will come back when I am sure.
00:51:43The warning of Trini had gone through the village.
00:52:07The people hid their children.
00:52:23The village was against them.
00:52:39The strangers.
00:52:40The horse blood men are here.
00:52:55I bring the doctors to save the children.
00:52:58There are no sick children here.
00:53:02We want to help you, not to hurt you.
00:53:26And only a few receive them.
00:53:33We can save her.
00:53:56The children are dying.
00:54:14The wise woman cannot cure them.
00:54:18Her father was courteous but he said,
00:54:20We do not like these new things.
00:54:29I know her illness.
00:54:31She is very ill.
00:54:33We do not want horses blood here.
00:54:36But there is a way to cure it.
00:54:39You may not enter my house nor poison my children.
00:54:43But she will die without the injection.
00:54:48And she will die by God's will, not by the blood of the horse.
00:55:12The assistant said,
00:55:13Here they are.
00:55:14I have them on the plate.
00:55:16The little murderers.
00:55:31The well is contaminated.
00:55:39Come look at them.
00:55:43This is the water of your well.
00:56:03We must kill the little murderers at the source.
00:56:28You must do this every day until no more children are sick.
00:56:35Our regular medical trucks will come with more soon.
00:56:52The strangers have poisoned the water.
00:56:55The water is poisoned.
00:56:59And the people are angry because they believe the well is poisoned.
00:57:07You have poisoned the water.
00:57:08We have no water now.
00:57:11This woman's baby has just died of your poison.
00:57:18This new nonsense, this horse blood will kill the baby.
00:57:22Look at her.
00:57:25The water is safe now.
00:57:26We have made it safe.
00:57:27The little animals are dead.
00:57:29We do not want you, poisoners.
00:57:32And you, traitor to your own people.
00:57:37We must drive the strangers out before they kill us all.
00:57:42Drive them out, the poisoners.
00:57:49Drive them out.
00:57:54Then the people drove the doctors out with curses.
00:58:11Father said, you are disgracing me with our own people.
00:58:25In the night, Juan Diego stole his little sister from the house.
00:58:33And he carried her out of the village.
00:58:52The doctor waited for him.
00:59:14We can save her.
00:59:16It is soon enough.
00:59:18She will be well again.
00:59:20She will be well.
00:59:50Here are the medicines.
01:00:10Use them when you can.
01:00:11And do not forget the well.
01:00:14Even if you must disinfect it at night.
01:00:19You can take her back.
01:00:20She will be well.
01:00:49You are against your village and your family, father said.
01:00:52You are a friend of the poisoners.
01:00:54You do not belong to us.
01:00:55Go back to your friends.
01:01:13My father said I must never return again.
01:01:16I thought it would happen.
01:01:20You have broken the law of your father.
01:01:22You have hurt his pride in the village.
01:01:25The doctor said they would place you in school in the city.
01:01:29Now I know how to combat the sickness and I have the medicines.
01:01:33You must take the shortcut over the mountains to meet the medical truck.
01:01:36But you must hurry.
01:01:38Hurry.
01:01:39You will come back to your own people later when you know enough.
01:01:49Hurry.
01:02:03Hurry.
01:02:12Hurry.
01:02:34Hurry.
01:03:03Hurry.
01:03:15Do not worry about your sister.
01:03:16She will get well.
01:03:19The teacher has medicine enough until our regular medical truck gets back.
01:03:23When the people see that your sister is well, they will accept the medicine.
01:03:29Do not blame them.
01:03:31There are people who will change them.
01:03:33They come from villages to learn.
01:03:35Boys like you, Juan Diego, and girls.
01:03:42They learn not for themselves but for their people.
01:03:51It will not be quick, Juan Diego.
01:03:53Learning and teaching are slow, patient things.
01:04:00Changes in people are never quick.
01:04:06But the boys and girls in the villages are being given a chance by a nation that believes in them.
01:04:12From the government schools, the boys and girls in the villages will carry knowledge back to their own people, Juan Diego.
01:04:19And the change will come.
01:04:21It is coming.
01:04:22The long climb out of darkness.
01:04:25Already the people are learning.
01:04:27Changing their lives.
01:04:28Learning, working, living in new ways.
01:04:31The change will come.
01:04:33It is coming.
01:04:34As surely as there are thousands of Juan Diego's in the villages of Mexico.
01:04:49I am Juan Diego.