Teresa Urrea, often referred to as Teresita and also known as Santa Teresa or La Santa de Cábora (the "Saint of Cabora") among the Mayo (October 15, 1873 – January 11, 1906), was a Mexican mystic, folk healer, and revolutionary insurgent.

Nov 5, 2021 · In 1892, the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz exiled Teresa Urrea from Mexico. He called her the most dangerous girl in Mexico. She was only 19 years old. Teresa Urrea was a “curandera,” or a healer, a feminist, and a revolutionary. She was born in 1873 in Sinaloa, Mexico.

On August 12, 1896, a month after the family arrived, a group of sixty to seventy exiled Yaqui and Tomochi Indians, calling themselves "Teresitas," stormed the Mexican customhouse at Nogales. The Díaz government blamed the attack on Teresa, and the Mexican ambassador to the United States demanded her extradition.

Jul 30, 2005 · Teresa Urrea was born into impoverished obscurity, the daughter of an unwed 14-year-old Tehueco Indian girl in northern Mexico. Yet by the time she was a teenager, she was known as “Santa Teresa,”...

Fue una mística mexicana, famosa en su época por sus conocimientos en medicina herbolaria y santidad, fue un personaje decisivo en eventos políticos e insurrecciones en contra de la dictadura de Porfirio Díaz en Chihuahua y Sonora a finales del siglo XIX.

Feb 19, 2025 · In 1896, it was home to Teresa Urrea, one of the most important and influential women to walk the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Aside from her healing knowledge as a curandera, she is known for her political role in the years leading up to the Mexican Revolution.

Dec 10, 2004 · Teresita Urrea, a.k.a. the Saint of Cabora, led a life that reads like a movie script. She was born in 1873 in Mexico, the illegitimate daughter of a fourteen-year-old Indian peasant and a dashing but philandering member of the aristocracy.

Teresa Urrea (b. 1873; d. 1906), popular figure among Mexican revolutionaries. A mestiza born in Ocorini, Sinaloa, Mexico, Teresa Urrea began, around 1890, to claim divine guidance and to preach social reform from her father's rancho at Cabora in …

La mujer que residía en Cábora, Sonora, llegó a Tomochi en un momento crítico. A Teresa se le atribuyen propiedades místicas tras sufrir un ataque de catalepsia que la dejó postrada durante 14 días y se le dio por muerta, por lo que su padre preparó los funerales para enterrarla.