In this extract taken from one of Graham Greene’s Tablet articles about Mexico, Greene investigates a ‘saint’ in a remote village who was reputed to perform miraculous healings. The phenomenon alarmed the Government which feared it was creating a religious revival The story was this: a poor Mexican farmer had for years kept San Miguelito (whatever he was) in a box. One day, about 18 months ago, he had opened the box and San Miguelito had spoken to him in a high, clear voice. He was so scared he ran all the way into the village of Bochil with the box, and there he had found four friends of his gathered together in a room. He had laid the box on the table and told them his story. Of course they didn’t believe him: then one of them opened the box and the thin high vo