Difunta Correa - Ruta 149

Another more simple "Difunta Correa shrine" at Ruta 149 (see PiP for one at Ruta 40). People mainly pray to survive on the lonesome roads and deposit water bottles, tires and another trash, believing, this helps not to die of thurst in the wilderness.

Difunta Correa (the late Correa, actually María Antonia Deolinda y Correa) was a woman who allegedly died of thirst in 1841 while looking for her husband in the desert of Argentina. However, thanks to the mother's milk, her child had not died. It has been found laying suckling on the dead mother's breast.

scanned slide, Minolta X700