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That this sufferer survived her ordeal is evident from the ex-voto itself, as it was produced to show gratitude for "the marvels" the divine images in it bestowed on the patient. 51 This ex-voto is vivid testimony that la peste was a category of illness to be feared above all else, a sentiment also poignantly expressed in letters the Condesa de Miravalle wrote to her son-in-law, Pedro Romero de Terreros, around this time.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Camus' novel La peste The Plague is perhaps the best example of this, but there is also Sartre's La nausée.

Bishop Pierre Whalon: Why I Am Not An Atheist Bishop Pierre Whalon 2011

Español · Taiwan: Quema de la embarcación del dios de la peste

Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Burning of the Plague God Boat 2009

Français · Taïwan brûle le bateau du dieu de la peste

Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Burning of the Plague God Boat 2009

These highly contagious diseases, very often referred to simply as "la peste," were the most feared by all sections of the population, regardless of their social class or race.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

And lastly, a whole town of Indians is cured of "un gran peste" by drinking the water of the shrine and having "the holy soil" applied to their bodies.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Another noted the benefit of always carrying a piece of juniper root on one's person, "the frequent smelling of which is good protection against the peste."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Sunt un prieten din copilarie, am locuit la Bucuresti pe Vasile Conta vis-a-vis, aveam un funiculer peste strada.

Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu. 2009

Scanning my shelves in preparation for this Hawes-like outpouring, I found his first novel, A Happy Death (Richard Howard's translation of La morte heureuse), as well as L'étranger and La peste (The Plague).

David Finkle: Writing Under the Influence, Living Under the Influence 2009

By the way, did you have the chance to watch "La peste" = the plague?

No Fat Clips!!! : Stopmo 2009