Corregidora, Querétaro

The shrine of the Virgen del Pueblito is located at a Franciscan monastery near the city of Querétaro. Votive offerings are exhibited in a simple museum at the complex, and the museum attendants archive votive texts in binders. As related in local histories, indigenous devotion to the Virgen del Pueblito began when a colonial friar placed the image outside the shrine of an idol. When the Otomíes saw the Virgen del Pueblito, they were so awestruck by her beauty and power that they abandoned idolatry and embraced Catholicism.