A woman railed against the saints while her husband believed. San Lázaro covered her 41-day-old daughter in sores; he told her so in a dream, and the mother, offering herself instead, promised to wear his badge for 5 years and so saved the child.
There was a married couple: the husband a great believer and the wife an unbeliever, who spent the day railing against the saints while they lived in great misery. Babalú Ayé, seeing that she went on railing, wanted to give the man some relief without the wife enjoying it, but warned him that it would touch him closely too. The couple had a daughter who, at 41 days old, became gravely ill and was covered in sores, since she was coming to serve out the time left over from another life.
San Lázaro appeared to the woman in a dream and told her that it was he who had covered the child in sores. The mother, sorry for it, begged him that whatever was to happen to the girl should happen to her instead, since she was the guilty one. San Lázaro told her she had to wear a badge of his for 5 years; the woman kept the promise, saved her daughter, luck came to her and they were happy. Kaferefún Oluo Popó.