Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![doing its duty as a clock-bell, for more than seventy years. During the period of the French intervention, in December, 1867, a new bell was installed in place of it and orders were given that it should be melted down —possibly, though Senor Obregon gives no informa¬ tion on this point, to be recast into cannon, along with the many church bells that went that way in Mexico at about that time. Whatever may have been planned in regard to its transmutation did not come off—because the liquid metal became refractory and could not be recast. As. this curious statement of fact has an exceptional interest in the case of a bell with so bad a record, I repeat it in Senor Obregon’s own words: “ Entonces se mando fundirla; mas al verificarlo se des- compuso el metal! NOTE VII LEGEND OF THE CALLEJON DEL PADRE LECUONA By a natural confusion of the name of the street in which the dead man was confessed with the name of the priest who heard his confession, this legend fre¬ quently is told nowadays as relating not to Padre Lanza but to Padre Lecuona. An old man whom I met in the Callejon del Padre Lecuona, when I was making search for the scene of the confession, told me the story in that way—and pointed out the house to me in all sincerity. Following that telling, I so mixed the matter myself in my first publication of the legend. Who Padre Lecuona was, or why the street was named after him, I have not discovered. Probably still an¬ other legend lurks there. Senor Riva Palacio tells the [156]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0210.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
