feed to stay on top of the news. The place, the parish, was crowded, because there was the civil registry and the vicarage, it had permission to carry out these types of procedures, that is why it was a very important place, Dulce María Vázquez, director of the Municipal Archive of the city of Irapuato, told Milenio, a Spanish newspaper, in an interview on Monday.
A drought in the city of Guanajuato diminished water levels enough to expose the church, according to A report from The New York Post
“Oral history tells us that it was very difficult for them to leave the place, not just because of the buildings, but because of the sense of belonging to the place,” Vazquez told Milenio. “A few resisted until they saw it was already a reality that the water would arrive and cover the entire town.”
Even as America celebrates Black History Month the coronavirus is taking a toll on minority communities. Data shows Black Americans have a higher risk of getting COVID and dying from the virus. Hundreds of Black churches decided to close in March to protect their members, and they haven’t been open since.
A 19th-century church has risen from the waters of a central Mexican lake after being submerged for decades the result of a recent drought that is plaguing the region.
The Church of the Virgin of Dolores disappeared in 1979 when the Purisima Dam was built and buried the colonial community of El Zangarro, Mexico News Daily said.