One Hundred Years of Solitude

saint. Three men brought it,
Amaranta explained. They
asked us to keep it until the
rains were over and I told
them to put it there in the
corner where nobody would
bump into it, and there they
put it, very carefully, and
there its been ever since
because they never came
back for it. Later on, Úrsula
had put candles on it and had
prostrated herself before it,
not suspecting that instead of