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Updated: May 8, 2025
That light proceeded from the chamber of Catalina. All at once the stillness of the night was broken by the loud tolling of a bell. It was the clock of the parroquia announcing the hour of midnight. The last stroke had not ceased to reverberate when the light in the chamber appeared to be suddenly extinguished for it no longer glowed through the curtain.
At a signal the bell rang in the tower of the parroquia, and then ceased. This was the cue for commencing the horrid ceremony. The black drivers led their animals from the wall, and, heading them in a direction parallel to one side of the Plaza, stood still. The faces of the women were now turned partially to the crowd, but their dishevelled hair sufficiently concealed them. The padres approached.
A large tablet, beautifully executed in relief, stood behind the altar, representing various saints, with an inscription stating that it was erected by Governor Francisco Antonio del Valle and his wife in 1761. Church services were held in the Parroquia, or Parish church, now the Cathedral, which had two towers or steeples, in which hung four bells.
Then the asses are led up in front of the parroquia now roofless and black; their heads are fastened together, so that the backs of their riders are turned toward the spectators. A line of warriors forms at a distance off their bows are bent, and at a signal a flight of arrows goes whistling through the air. The suffering of the padres is at an end. Both have ceased to exist.
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