Slow Burn - One Year: Jesus on a Tortilla
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After Maria Rubio saw Jesus on a tortilla, her family got besieged by believers and gawkers and the national press. But for the Rubios, the tortilla wasn’t just a public spectacle. It was the miracle that changed their family. And decades later, they’re still reckoning with how that tortilla upended everything.
One Year is produced by Josh Levin, Evan Chung, and Madeline Ducharme. Mixing by Merritt Jacob.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Slow Burn listeners, thanks for all your great feedback on our new show One Year. |
| 0:05.2 | If you like our show, the best way to follow One Year is in its own feed in your podcast app. |
| 0:11.2 | You'll get all of our episodes as soon as they come out, plus bonus content you can't get anywhere else. |
| 0:17.3 | Just search one year from Slate on any podcast app. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, this is Josh Levine, the host of One Year. |
| 0:27.8 | This is the seventh and final episode of our season on 1977. |
| 0:32.3 | But I've got good news. |
| 0:34.4 | We're coming back for another season very soon. Stay tuned after this episode to learn |
| 0:41.1 | what year we're doing next and how you can help us out. Now, on with our show. |
| 0:50.7 | Can you just describe the best you can remember what happened the morning of the Jesus tortilla? |
| 1:05.0 | That's Maria Rubio. |
| 1:07.4 | On Wednesday, October 5th, 1977, she woke up in her small green stucco house in southeastern New Mexico |
| 1:14.7 | and started making her husband's lunch. |
| 1:21.2 | It was 6 a.m. I would always get up at 6 a.m. |
| 1:24.7 | And that morning I got up and made about three or four tortillas. |
| 1:33.9 | And when I was fixing the beans and the cheese and egg, |
| 1:39.0 | when I put the food on the second burrito and when I was getting ready to roll it, |
| 1:51.0 | that's when I saw the little face of Jesus. |
| 1:58.0 | Well, I wasn't sure. |
| 2:13.6 | and then I felt chills. And I felt chills. And I felt like I was going to move a bit because I felt like. I don't know if it was joy or fear. I'm not sure. |
| 2:21.2 | The first person Maria told was her 17-year-old daughter, Rosie. |
| 2:26.0 | I remember hearing my mom calling me. |
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