The story
Fiestas Patronales de Zacatecoluca in Zacatecoluca
Zacatecoluca, capital of La Paz department, celebrates Santa Lucia and Nuestra Senora de los Pobres with December fiestas patronales running roughly from December 13 through the month's end. The Virgen de los Pobres devotion traces to an 1770 tradition in which villagers credited the image with diverting a destructive windstorm from the town.
Zacatecoluca, the departmental capital of La Paz, holds its fiestas patronales through December, a month-long period anchored by two devotions rather than one: Santa Lucia, the early Christian martyr traditionally honored December 13, and Nuestra Senora de los Pobres, Our Lady of the Poor, whose local devotion carries a specific and still-repeated origin story.