Émile Dubois
The grave of a man sentenced to death whom Valparaíso turned into a folk saint, covered in plaques and candles in the Playa Ancha cemetery.
Timeline
The animitas in the atlas, ordered by the year of the death they remember or the start of their devotion.
- 1907
Folk saint · Valparaíso - 1924
Work and labour · Antofagasta Evaristo Montt
The animita of a railway worker killed in 1924 when a locomotive exploded, which Antofagasta still visits a century later.
- 1933
Folk saint · Metropolitana Romualdito
One of the oldest and most visited animitas in Santiago, a stretch of wall covered in thank-you plaques beside the Estación Central railway station.
- 1945
Folk saint · Metropolitana La Marinita
The animita of a three-year-old girl in Santiago's Parque O'Higgins, filled with dolls, toys and thank-you plaques since 1945.
- 1963
Folk saint · Ñuble The Jackal of Nahueltoro
The grave of Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela, executed in 1963, which became a place of devotion in the San Carlos cemetery.