A prayer for Evita: Here s why many Argentinians are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952 wboc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wboc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Far from Argentina, few people may know much about Eva Perón, widely known as “Evita." But the former first lady, who died in 1952, is a constant presence in her
Early every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union in Buenos Aires, Ángeles Celerier heads to the chapel and prays to Saint Cajetan, Saint Teresa and Eva Perón. Many union members think of Evita as their patron or gaze at her photos with nostalgia, feeling that she and her husband, three-time President Juan Domingo Perón, brought prosperity to their country through an equality and social justice-driven movement that was named after him in the 1940s: Peronism.
A prayer for Evita: Here s why many Argentinians are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952 lasvegassun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lasvegassun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.