For the proud Tlaxcala people, ally and builder of the town in the Castilian conquests, it must have been a reason of great distinction that San Miguel, the prince of the heavenly militias, appeared in their town, leaving as other invocations his respective little pot of miracle water.
The many times mentioned Father Francisco de Florencia S.J. He also enriched the Tlaxcala chronicles with the "Narration of the miraculous appearance that the Archangel San Miguel made to Diego Lázaro de San Francisco, an Indian parishioner of the San Bernabé town of the jurisdiction of Santa María Nativitas, state of Tlaxcala", written in this college of Saint Peter, March 6, 1690.
It was the year 1631 when Diego Lázaro de San Francisco, who was going in a procession, the Archangel appeared to him without the others noticing, and ordered him to tell the people that in a nearby ravine he would sprout a spring of miraculous water to cure diseases. As he did not comply with this order for fear that he would not be given credit, the Archangel punished him and fell ill with cocolixtli. Being in the extreme of death he appeared to him again, but now everyone saw a great light that filled the room, leaving scared. When they returned, they found him healthy and he told them that the Archangel had taken him to the place where with his staff he made the miraculous water flow and gave him health. Immediately the demons fled in droves, the Tlaxcala leader.
In 1645 the bishop of Puebla, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, ordered the construction of the temple and the chapel for the well. This covers the curb and has a relief that represents the moment when the Archangel makes the water flow before Diego Lázaro. The facade of the church is Mannerist, much to Palafox's taste.
It bears his heraldry and in the tympanum houses the alabaster sculpture of San Miguel. The open pediment is crowned with the coat of arms of Spain, framed by the chain and the fleece.
