NPS Photo "This is an important part of who San Antonio is. We’re a part of who San Antonio is." Sharing some of their ancestory, the Bustillos family explains that:"There were 16 families that arrived in San Antonio. When they left the Canary Islands there were only 10, but through marriages and other things it got to 16, and 56 individuals that made it. […] We were family number 5." 
NPS Photo Freddie Bustillos shares a family tradition and a special item:"We have a Christ Child from a nativity set that we can trace back to probably being 300 yrs old.[…] I just happened to be the caretaker for it, because it gets passed down. We do an annual Bustillo family event near Christmas where we will have the Christ Child and then we will pray. Sometimes we will do the rosary, sometimes we just have a general prayer service [...] last year we did it via Zoom, we didn’t stop." |
Last updated: October 5, 2021