Miguel Ángel Gaitán

Miguel Ángel Gaitán (July 9, 1966 – June 24, 1967[1]), also known as El Angelito Milagroso (Spanish for "Miracle Child" — "angelito", which is a diminutive for ángel (angel), is a reference to his name) was an Argentine baby who died of meningitis, at age 11 months.

Miguelito was born in Banda Florida, on the banks of the Bermejo River, in Villa Unión, head of the Coronel Felipe Varela department of the province of La Rioja, Argentina.

His corpse remained remarkably well-preserved, as was discovered after a violent rainstorm in 1973, seven years after his death, which unearthed the baby's coffin.

But then the coffin's lid kept being removed, and presuming those to be signs that he didn't want to be hidden, but rather seen by the people, his mother finally transferred the body to a coffin with a glass lid, on which he has stayed to the present day, revered by people from all Argentina which recurred to him for miracles as a folk saint.

He eventually gained international fame, being covered by several newspapers, most notably the New York Times.