Comments on: It’s a puzzle to me…

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:06:52 +0000

Billie, I love the sound, too. They stopped playing the songs for a while in the summer and we really noticed the absence.

John, I can imagine that would be pretty funny – doesn’t happen here though because the main Cathedral trumps all, I think. Just two blocks away from us is the oldest church in Mazatlan, Templo San Jose – but I never notice the bells coming from there.

1st Mate, I’ll go with you!

Felipe, Wow, I hope that is a tape recording or someone would get awfully tired. It must be a comfort to some to be remembered like that all day long.

By: Felipe Zapata

Felipe Zapata — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:46:00 +0000

When someone dies in my neighborhood, the church bell down on the plaza rings once about every ten seconds all night long and often into the day. I like it. Of course, that´s because I never know the deceased.

By: 1st Mate

1st Mate — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:26:58 +0000

That’s one of my favorite churches, and I’ve promised myself to explore it inside next time I’m in Maz.

By: John Calypso

John Calypso — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:55:45 +0000

The part that cracks me up is here in Xico the different capillas and iglesias bell ringers seem to occasionally get into a bell ringing competition – almost like jazz musicians: one plays a riff and then another tries to embellish or work from that. Don’t try and figure that out however – it gets complex and occasionally comical

By: Billie

Billie — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:45:52 +0000

Several times we rented a house in SMA that backed up to a church. The first few nights the bells would sometimes wake us as they rang every 15 minutes. But after a few nights we adjusted and if you heard them they were like a clock to tell you the time. The night bells were electronic and once when we were in this house they broke. We kept waking up during the night to listen for the bells and really missed them.

By: Leslie Limon

Leslie Limon — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:54:22 +0000

In Yahualica, both of the bells ring when someone has died. The priest is summoned to give the last rites, and he then lets the bell ringers know that someone has died. Whenever we hear that the bells are “doblando”, we know that someone in town has died.