San Miguelito... Has what you like was officially founded on 14 April 1597 by a group of Tarascan and Mexican Indians from the village of Tlaxcalilla, commanded by the Mexican Francisco Jocquinque. In the Foundation application, approved by Luis Valderrama Saavedra, mayor of San Luis Potosí, installed in the new city, you were granted 2 thousand 500 rods of table land, measured from the orchard of the convent of San Francisco more or less in the current street of Pascual M. Hernandez. He quickly appointed a government for the administration and good order of the new settlement, initially composed of a standing mayor, another deputy and one or two mice. Like other peoples of Indians and Spaniards in the territory of San Luis Potosí, San Miguelito was subject to the greater union of San Luis Potosí, civil and ecclesiastical to the Franciscan order. Over time, Otomi, mulatto, mestizo and black families arose in the new city, causing some friction. In the early years of the 17th century, two other villages were established in the place: San Francisco - also named in diminutive - and Santissima Trinità, and in the last decades of the century San Juan de Guadalupe was also mentioned as part of its jurisdiction. These villages, until the beginning of the 19th century, were usually identified as part of the territory of the municipality of San Miguel. It is worth clarifying that from the 17th century until the beginning of the 19th century the people as a whole were known interchangeably as San Miguel or Holy Trinity, but since 1821 and until today the name San Miguel has prevailed, although expressed in diminutive: San Miguelito.The name was imposed by the Franciscans, as guardians of the people, who had......middle of paper......religious life of the town of San Miguel and construction of its main temple which in 1872 it was elevated to a parish. But like all others, this temple of the Holy Trinity underwent several transformations, for example: the current altar was built in the first decades of the nineteenth century; and from 1881 to 1897 he achieved important improvements, such as the composure of the entire building, the purchase of paintings, furniture and various sacred vessels as well as the construction of the chapels of the Tabernacle and of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad and the arches of the entrance to the former chapel of the Deposition of Christ and the old sacristy; the last improvement dates back to the last years of the 20th century and involved the National Institute of Anthropology and History, the State Government and Father Carlos Cabrero, head of the parish.