What is the legend of El Tiradito? Vanessa Keller Scottsdale, Arizona El Tiradito (The Outcast) is in Barrio Viejo in Tucson, Arizona, and is supposedly the world’s sole shrine for a sinner. Of the shrine’s many origin stories, my favorite dates to an 1870s ill-fated love affair between 18-year-old sheepherder Juan Oliveras and his mother-in-law. The father-in-law discovered the pair and killed Oliveras in a jealous rage. Oliveras, guilty of a sin, couldn’t be buried in consecrat


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