Remembering the dead: Dia de los Muertos celebration returns to historic California town
The annual All Souls Day celebration — marking Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead — returned Tuesday night to the historic former Mexican mining town of Hornitos in the rolling foothills about 20 miles northeast of Merced.
Hornitos Patrons Club vice-president Delores Cabezut-Ortiz said organizers counted 521 people in attendance, with some traveling from as far away as Rosarita, Mexico.
Last year, the celebration was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the sun disappeared behind a far ridge, the people gathered in the plaza for a silent candlelit procession through the dark town and up a hill along a luminaria-lined gravel road to St. Catherine of Siena Church’s cemetery to honor those who have died.
Last year, the celebration was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the sun disappeared behind a far ridge, the people gathered in the plaza for a silent candlelit procession through the dark town and up a hill along a luminaria-lined gravel road to St. Catherine of Siena Church’s cemetery to honor those who have died. Father Steve Bulfer of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Mariposa led a service at the grave of Doña Candelaria de Sapien, who restarted the tradition over 100 years ago.
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