Catholic devotees honor St Jude’s relic with watery procession through Mexico’s Xochimilco
canals
( MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ. AP NEWS
It was no ordinary Sunday on Mexico City’s famed Xochimilco canals.
Instead of tourists and locals hanging out with friends, the brightly painted boats known as “trajineras” were filled with Catholics honoring a relic of St. Jude Thaddeus, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles and patron saint of impossible causes.