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Detente! - Prayer
"Detente bala" is an inscription used by Spanish soldiers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The phrase detente bala means "stop, bullet" in Spanish.
Patches of cloth with the phrase around a Sacred Heart of Jesus were worn on the chest as a protection. The devotion is derived by the badges of the Sacred Heart promoted by 17th-century saint Margaret Mary Alacoque against epidemics.[1] They are still used by some Spanish soldiers in the 21st century.[1]
See also
- The ghost shirts of the followers of the Ghost Dance Native American movement were believed to protect them from bullets.
References
- Detente in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.
- ^ a b "El Regimiento "Príncipe" n.º 3 se presenta a su Patrona". ejercito.defensa.gob.es (in Spanish). Regimiento de Infantería 'Principe' nº 3. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2020.