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is from the eighteenth century when its use became popular among
Spanish soldiers. Tradition has it that the "Detente bala" were embroidered by hand by the wives, mothers or sisters of the combatants before they left for the war, in the hope that they would stop the bullets that threatened their lives and return them safe and sound to their homes.
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started the custom of wearing a small cloth emblem with the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a symbol of devotion. This symbol soon began to spread as a protection "amulet" against the epidemics that devastated Europe with the name of "Safeguard" initially and "stop" with the passage of time. It
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against epidemics. They are still used by the
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meaning: "Stop, bullet, the Sacred Heart of Jesus is with me (or protects me)!"
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