Papa Liborio no ha muelto Na' / Papa Liborio Aint Dead (2026)

Olivorio (Liborio) Mateo was a healer, mystic, and resistance leader from San Juan de la Maguana, in the southern mountains of the Dominican Republic. Believed to hold powers of healing and prophecy, he drew thousands of pilgrims — Los Liboristas — to his sanctuary and led resistance against the occupying US forces until he was killed by Marines in 1922. His legend never accepted his death: it has been passed down through Dominican generations as a symbol of faith, healing, and defiance against foreign invaders. Here he rises as an icon over his own story — the comet that announced him, the dove of his spirit, and his people still walking with torches through the mountains, carried within him. Painted in the naïve style with gold leaf, in the tradition of Caribbean popular religion, where the saints have always been our own.