Juan soldado. Mito religioso fronterizo

Abstract

Juan Castillo Morales was the name of a soldier who comes to holy by the will of the people of Tijuana. The Myth of Juan Soldado claimed the aid as an intermediary deity has given to the poor. The popular tradition has given him a place in the popular imagination. In an exercise recreation practices of popular Catholicism. Believers justify the saint as generous and good soldier, died unfairly by the bad government. It was of humble origin becoming sacred by the poor people distrustful of authority in a historical moment of political and economic crisis resulting in little or no credibility to the institutions. Juan Soldado is the patron saint of the poor and migrants who want his help. Myth becomes the need for people to have a relationship with divinity that is a protective halo due to the uncertainty of what was coming, especially after the economic crisis of 1929.