Socorro

Lady of the Virtuous Pains

Socorro is a legendary Needle Weaver hidden in the south of Durram. She is a martyr-saint of the Sorrum who took on the agony of the sinful so that they may enter Sanctum. 
Socorro spent her childhood in a village which lined a route that Church prisoners, condemned for their crimes and sins, frequently traversed. From the window of her room, she could see how these prisoners climbed a hill in a line so that, when they reached the summit, they would be ready for the punishments and physical tortures reserved for them until they died.
Hearing the distant cries of the damned day and night turned Socorro into such a compassionate person that she devoted all her time to praying for those punished. So much did she pray for them to be freed from their pain and suffering that she dared ask The Weeping Martyr that the physical pain they were suffering be passed on to her.
As the legend goes, the wounds of lashes, cuts and wounds received by the condemned began to appear on Socorro's body, and still she prayed for them, despite all that pain transferred to her, thus freeing the condemned from their suffering. So many injuries and so much pain were transferred to her that her body began deforming and drowning completely in wounds and bleeding bruises, but without causing her death.