Socorro de Júzcar is a peasant girl from the Kingdom of Vallamanca. She belongs to the Church of Forxá's Dolors. She is devoted to the worship of Forxá and is eager to mortify her flesh to redeem her sins in His eyes. She joyfully participates in all the agonies and humiliations of the Church's rituals. She finds fulfillment in the holy purity of her ritualized suffering. She is very pious and joins in numerous pilgrimages, processions, floggings, beatings, toils, fasts, and prostrations.