Culto y festividad a San Luis Rey en la colonia El Ajusco: un testimonio de religiosidad popular en la ciudad de México

The objective of this study is to present the results of a series of interviews with the woman entrusted with organizing the San Luis Rey fes- tivities in the El Ajusco neighborhood of Mexico City. This approach allowed the author to observe the origins of the cult to that image and explore differences with the original celebration held in the town of Nahuatzen, state of Michoacan. But, above all, it reveals the relation between this Saint and the people who participate in the cult through the fiesta, the promises made to the image, and the favors and miracles asked of it. One important aspect of the analysis is that it examines the topic of the status of a popular devotion through testimonies of a specific social actor in a popular urban setting. Her name is Mrs. Juana Maldonado Zuniga, daughter of the founder of the celebration, who is now responsible for organizing the San Luis Rey fiesta in El Ajusco.