... if she were there when Jesus was so terribly mistreated by the gringo Romans, she would kill them all and save Jesus from this terrible fate.

Etty He was a kind old man and treated her well. He was a gringo, too, but spoke Spanish well. He baptized her and asked her to stay in his village, to turn away from the vagabond life of a thief. Chica thought about it. She thought a lot about Jesus and being baptized. She thought about eating the Eucharist. Many things the old priest taught her made no sense. She often stopped at each station of the cross in the church and imagined that, if she were there when Jesus was so terribly mistreated by the gringo Romans, she would kill them all and save Jesus from this terrible fate.

She told this to the priest and he smiled. He said that Jesus had to die, so that all our sins would be forgiven. It made no sense to Chica that a good man should die. It made no sense to her that Jesus’ dying made all of our sins go away. The Mule Tamer