Between Heaven and Desert, is the title for my notebook of visual notes, a preliminary photographic work dedicated to observe, document and establish contacts with the community of fidencist pilgrims, familiarize with the geographical area, the phenomenon and the spiritual practices of the cult . On both occasions during 2012 and 2013, I self-financed and produced the field research towards the Sanctuary of Espinazo and meetings with communities of the northwest of the country.

There I began to document the rituals for the celebration of the thaumaturge, staying with one of the pilgrims I met during my trip by truck to the place. This allowed me to coexist with families of matters that heal, involving me directly in their healing practices, always as an ethnographic witness but establishing bonds of friendship and living with them constantly. Throughout these days of work, I was able to interview them, portray them and love them.

Despite being skeptical and not a believer of any particular religion, I could immerse myself in their idiosyncrasies to the degree of having experienced communication with the spirit through them and other matters outside this family. Later, I cultivated contact with one of the main people in charge of the fidencist church and on my second visit I was his guest.

I could see how the healing essence of Fidencio is closely related to the desert, the stage and the fundamental witness for a deeper awareness of the fidencist cult. This pilgrimage and syncretism found a fertile soil in an arid territory, a community of spiritual support across borders.

Fidencist transmigrants in their pilgrimages manifest the devotion of their cultural identity through their faith. The spirit of Costantino still manifests through mediums (materia) and the cult identify by its cures related to places in town and some other aspects. In one of his rituals, he used to throw from a pirul objects to those gathered around him who received the blow were cured; in another, he submerged his followers in a muddy puddle located in the center of the town.

The phenomenon fidencista is emblematic and significant within a research about "religions in movement" just for the mystical, geo political and historical complementarities that have arisen and have been generated over time involving the figure of the Child, the migrant pilgrims of the United States, and those who remain in Mexico, next to the desert. Definitely none of them could exist without the other.