From early hours of May 10, families arrived at the General Cemetery, in zone 3, to pay tribute to their mothers with flowers, prayers and the arrangement of niches of those who marked their lives with love and indelible teachings.
Miriam Aracely Manrique arrived with a bouquet of flowers in her arms. He would place it in his mother’s tomb, Eladia García, who died 15 years ago, but has become a family tradition decorating her along with her sisters and nieces.
“She was a very hardworking woman, of the people before she sold whatever: she sold atol, toast, tortillas with pork rinds, everything. He taught us to work for us. He left us well taught. He is still alive in the heart of us,” Manrique recalls when he remembers his mother.
In total, there are five brothers who have Manrique, although an older sister already died. Today they also took the opportunity to decorate their niche in the general cemetery.
“It hurts me to have lost it”
A few meters away was Nora Leticia Chub, who was getting up early to leave Quetzal, San Juan Sacatepéquez, and reach the general cemetery early to decorate the tombs of her parents, her mother -in -law, two sisters and her husband.
Remember that her mother, María Eugenia Chávez, died two years ago, and two months ago she lost her father, Abelino Chub, but she is comforting her to know that both are together today.
“My father has just died, but now he is with her, he longed to be with her,” he says, while trying to remember his parent and the teachings he gave him in life.
“My mother was a great woman. Thank God, he taught us many things. First, to love God about all things, and I thank my God for having given me my mother. It hurts in my heart to have lost her, but they are things of God,” he says.
He assures that every year he reaches the field to decorate his graves.
“We always come to see her, we don’t forget. I know they are in heaven and from there they look at us,” he says, accompanied by his granddaughters.