On January 14, in the town of Escuque, celebrations are held to give thanks and ask favors to the Child Jesus, who is worshipped as patron saint in this locality. The image of the Divine Infant Jesus, who would later become the soul of a people, its sun of glory, an inexhaustible source of mercy, a bond of union for the Escuqueña community and with its smile to point out its paths of faith, hope and welfare, came to Gibraltar around the years 1610 to 1611, brought by the GUANCHEZ Y CERRADA family, coming from Leon, Spain. This family, like so many others, went to Gibraltar and settled there in view of the importance of the area south of Lake Maracaibo, both for agriculture, livestock and fishing and for its abundance of permanent water everywhere, as working people who came with the intention of carrying out progressive, dignified and exemplary work, later founded an extensive and rich agricultural estate in those fertile lands. This farm, still in full prosperity, was abandoned because of the life of anxiety determined by the wanderings of the Indians quiriquires, the same natives that since 1591 when Gonzalo de Piña Lidueña founded Gibraltar did not cease to bother the colonizers, the outsiders as they called them. Reaching the extreme in these their wanderings, they rose up in 1690 and in 1915, and in this last opportunity: November 19 of that year, acting suddenly, they seized many people, killing many others, among them Captain Delgado, kidnapping a daughter of the brave Spanish captain, they burned the totality of the houses of the population, with the only exception of the house of room of this Captain, where a group of families had taken refuge and where, precisely, was the Sacred Image of the Sweet Name of Jesus to whom it was reserved later to be the spiritual axis of the town of Escuque.

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