One October morning in 1977, Maria was making burritos for her family. And then she saw it.
Maria Rubio was born in the Mexican town of Ojinaga in 1940. Her family moved across the border when she was 14 years old. Maria says that back then, the schools in New Mexico did a poor job teaching English to immigrants. To this day, she’s a monolingual Spanish speaker. “We arrived here with only one suitcase, very little clothes, a couple of pillows, a couple of blankets, and a pan for food,” she says. “We didn’t have a car. We didn’t have a house or anything like that.
All those visitors strengthened Maria’s faith. She treated the tortilla with reverence and care, displaying it in a glass and metal case atop a bunch of cotton balls—like it was floating on a cloud. That case sat on the Rubios’ dining room table, surrounded by flowers.By the end of 1977, more than 6,000 visitors had signed Maria’s guest books. People streamed in from all over New Mexico, many of them Latino, drawn by word of mouth and local news stories.
Visitors would ask her to heal them, and she would tell them that she didn’t know how to heal. She struggled to eat and sleep. She didn’t want to profit off the tortilla, so she agonized about how to give away the donations she’d been getting. Some people even accused her of faking the whole thing—of painting the image, or burning it into the tortilla herself. She started to wonder if the tortilla might be cursed, or a tool of the devil.
When Badger and her boyfriend got to Lake Arthur, no one answered the door at the Rubios’ house. But there was a sign out front. Badger remembers it saying: “Come on in, the tortilla’s on the right.” A good number of people did see the Jesus tortilla in the 1970s and ’80s. Some came from the East Coast. Others came from Europe. The first round of media coverage spawned a second round, and a third. The AP and UPI wire services both sent reporters to Lake Arthur. There were also pieces in the National Catholic Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek.As the tortilla story spread around the nation, so did a new wave of skepticism.
“Of course Jesus is going to appear on a tortilla,” Arellano says. “He’s not going to appear on fucking caviar.”and eating a bowl of ramen noodles when someone knocks at the door. Rosy was always close with her mother. She wanted to protect Maria but also help her share her story. Since her mother spoke only Spanish, Rosy became the family’s media spokesperson.The Phil Donahue Show
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