Few meters near to the entrance of the Cemetery of the Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje, of the city of Camagüey, it is a supposed sepulchre in which appear these inscribed rhymes as epitaph that according to local historians, it appeared there in 1833.Immediately, and until our days, the curiosity began to knit the history, denied by recent investigations, but once transformed into legend, it is part of the traditions, of the Camagüey’s heritage.
It is said that Dolores Rondón was a beautiful Creole, with grace and roguery, very cheerful, who ended up being the pride of the neighborhood where she lived, some assured that she was daughter of a Catalan, owner of a mixed store, and a Creole mulatta.
Near Dolores's house there was a barber's shop that had for owner a youth mulatto that was a versatile life survival, named Francisco Juan de Molla y Escobar who was crazy in love with the youth, the one that lavished him all types of cold shoulders, scorns and repulses.
The girl Dolores married a Spanish officer, who made it elevate her social distinction. But this condition didn't last much after her husband died early, being the youth practically in the anonymity.
Years later somebody identifies her among The Carmen's sick persons, existing hospital in the city for women, and when knowing of the lover's serious state, the barber Francisco took care of her until the moment of her death.
The funeral was of poor people, the sepulchre is the poor people, and the villagers attribute him the rhymes from the epitaph to the unfortunate gallant.
From then on, everybody who arrives to the place where it is said that the Dolores's rest remains, it will be wrapped by the mystery of the legend and the fragrance of the small bouquet of flowers that accompany to the cross and the epitaph. (by María Delys Cruz Palenzuela)
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