August 6, 2023. Dr. Aureliano Urrutia often took on surgeries that no other doctor would attempt. He considered this operation in 1917 to be his most challenging and his most inspired. It was an early success in several fields of surgery and solidified his reputation as a great surgeon; continuing a legacy begun in Mexico as that country’s top physician, and bringing pride to San Antonio as a budding medical city….

August 30, 2020. Luz Fernández and Dr. Aureliano Urrutia had seven daughters who immigrated with them to San Antonio. It has been a challenge to get a sense of their lives, and to bring the memory of these women into the present. Refugio, the eldest daughter, arrived on the Texas coast with her parents in May 1914, and was old enough to remember some of the details of the journey….Read more>>>

May 25, 2019. Announcing the publisher of my book about Dr. Aureliano Urrutia’s garden of Miraflores. Also, the 150th anniversary celebration of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word honors early supporters, including la familia Urrutia. Read more>>>

October 20, 2018. Last year, on Día de los Muertos, I ventured over to San Fernando Cemetery to place the beautiful traditional Mexican marigolds, cempasuchitl, at the graves of three Urrutia generations. This year, the spirit of Día de los Muertos visited me a bit earlier, initiated by a trip to Xochimilco, Mexico in early October to meet friends face to face for the first time. Recovering memories of Dr. Aureliano Urrutia in Xochimilco and San Antonio…Read more>>>

August 4, 2018. Several familia Urrutia photographs are exhibited along with hundreds of other historic images of San Antonio. One shows the 1971 demolition of the Clínica Urrutia y Farmacia as a result of "urban renewal." Dr. Aureliano Urrutia built the nearly square-block clinical complex in 1926 at the northeast corner of Houston and Laredo. Read more>>>