Thousands of faithful celebrate San Judas Tadeo in Mexico City

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He is known as the holy protector of thieves and police. They call him San Juditas and every October 28 he gathers thousands of faithful in the Church of San Hipólito, located at the intersection of Hidalgo and Reforma avenues, in the heart of Mexico City.

From the first hours of this Monday, road closures on Avenida Hidalgo and Paseo de la Reforma were implemented, as reported by the Center for Command, Control, Computing, Communications and Citizen Contact of Mexico City (C5).

The agency pointed out that the road involvement goes from Axis 1 Poniente, Guerrero, to Avenida Paseo de la Reforma and the side of the same artery to the south from Franciso Javier Mina.

According to C5, from the early hours of Monday a concentration of people was already registered outside the church of San Hipólito, in the Guerrero neighborhood, on the occasion of the celebrations of San Judas Tadeo.

Among the devotees who cram the temple and its surrounding streets every year, tattoos stand out with the image of the saint, patterned shirts, sca[CENSORED]rs and charms with the image of Saint Judges, as most call him.

In the slums and poor colonies, the sacred triad of young people is made up of San Judas Tadeo, Malverde and Santa Muerte: three saints identified with drug traffickers and criminals.

However, of the three, only "San Juditas" is considered an "official saint", who, according to the church, seeks the poorest, most desperate and the workers.

According to José de Jesús Aguilar Valdés, deputy director of Radio and Television of the Archdiocese of Mexico, the relationship that is made of San Judas with crime issues stems from a confusion due to the falsification of the image: the printers copied it upside down and the staff that originally he carries the saint in his right hand, it was left. That is why people say that St. Jude Thaddeus with the cane on the left side is the patron of criminals.