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HORNITOS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Once a year, successful a tiny "ghost town" nestled distant successful the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, footsteps making their mode to the cemetery are each that tin beryllium heard for a Dia De Los Muertos oregon an All Souls Day Celebration.
Hands, fingers, and faces glow supra the candles arsenic hundreds of radical locomotion up the elevation to the aged Saint Catherines Catholic Church Cemetery.
Yosemite Mariposa County Tourism Bureau's website for the County of Mariposa says that the yearly procession connected All Souls Day is to grant the dormant - who outnumber the surviving successful the tiny municipality of Hornitos successful Mariposa County.
According to the website, successful Spanish, Hornitos translates to small ovens, an aphorism that immoderate accidental was utilized to picture the above-ground graves that scattered the town.
Among the dormant that laic successful Hornitos is Joaquin Murrieta, a Mexican-American vaquero turned bandit. Although his assemblage rests successful Hornitos, the "Robin Hood of the West," lives connected successful fable - his beingness is believed to person inspired the quality Zorro.
The candle-lit procession volition beryllium connected Nov. 2 and volition commencement astatine dusk. For much information, click here.
