The Christ of Ixmiquilpan was a life-size cornstalk-paste image (imagen en caña de maíz) venerated at the church of Mapethé, near the town of Ixmiquilpan, Mexico. In the seventeenth century the sculpture had become disfigured and was ordered buried with the next townsperson to die. Six years passed without any deaths. Suddenly, the effigy detached from the cross and miraculously renovated itself. In 1621 the image was transferred to the Carmelite convent of Santa Teresa in Mexico City. Its fame as a miracle worker grew, yet only a few copies after the original on its altar were created for private and public veneration.

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