The replica image of the Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos will visit several parishes in Southern California from Friday through Nov. 3.

The welcoming ceremony will be held at St. Joseph’s Church in La Puente at 6 p.m. and will beled by Fr. Luis Ramiro Martinez, who accompanies the image from the Diocese of San Juan de Los Lagos, Mexico, said Miguel Gonzalez, coordinator in California of the Diocese of San Juan de Los Lagos in Jalisco, Mexico.

The image of the virgin will be at St. Joseph’s Church until Oct. 6. A farewell mass will be held with Mariachi music that evening.

The image of the Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos receives almost 6 million visitors each year, making it the second most visited image in Mexico after the image of the Virgin of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.

Here is the list of churches where devotees can see the replica image of the Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos:

• Oct. 4-6: San Jose Church, 550 N. Glendora Ave. La Puente, California 91744
• Oct. 7-8: Santa Marianna de Paredes Parish, 7930 Passons Blvd Pico Rivera, California 90660
• Oct. 15-16: Guadalupe Church, 4018 Hammel St. Los Angeles, California 90063
• Oct. 24-28: Rosario Church, 14815 S. Paramount Blvd, Paramount, California 90723
• Oct. 29-30: Talpa Church, 2914 E 4th St. Los Angeles, California 90033
• Oct. 31-Nov. 3: Guadalupe Church, 427 N. Oak St. Santa Paula, California 93060

According to the Diocese of San Juan de Los Lagos, Mexico, the veneration of the Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos began in 1623, with the miracle of a young girl, a member of a family of acrobats, was recorded. The young girl, along with her parents, was traveling to Guadalajara when she suffered a fatal accident during a performance. The girl tragically fell from a trapeze and died. An Indigenous woman, moved by the family’s grief, asked for an image of the Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos to be brought to her, and when it was placed on her body, the girl was revived.

It is believed that after the incident, many heard about the miracle, and the figure has since led millions of faithful to visit the Basilica-Cathedral of the Diocese of San Juan de Los Lagos in Jalisco, Mexico where the original image lives.

One of two doctors charged in the investigation of the death of Matthew Perry is expected to plead guilty Wednesday in a federal court in Los Angeles to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine.

Dr. Mark Chavez, 54, of San Diego, signed a plea agreement with prosecutors in August and would be the third person to plead guilty in the aftermath of the “Friends” star’s fatal overdose last year.

Prosecutors offered lesser charges to Chavez and two others in exchange for their cooperation as they go after two targets they deem more responsible for the overdose death: another doctor and an alleged dealer that they say was known as “ketamine queen” of Los Angeles.

Chavez is free on bond after turning over his passport and surrendering his medical license, among other conditions.

His lawyer Matthew Binninger said after Chavez’s first court appearance on Aug. 30 that he is “incredibly remorseful” and is “trying to do everything in his power to right the wrong that happened here.”

Also working with federal prosecutors are Perry’s assistant, who admitted to helping him obtain and inject ketamine, and a Perry acquaintance, who admitted to acting as a drug messenger and middleman.

The three are helping prosecutors in their prosecution of Dr. Salvador Plasencia, charged with illegally selling ketamine to Perry in the month before his death, and Jasveen Sangha, a woman who authorities say sold the actor the lethal dose of ketamine. Both have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.

Chavez admitted in his plea agreement that he obtained ketamine from his former clinic and from a wholesale distributor where he submitted a fraudulent prescription.

After a guilty plea, he could get up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced.

Perry was found dead by his assistant on Oct. 28. The medical examiner ruled ketamine was the primary cause of death. The actor had been using the drug through his regular doctor in a legal but off-label treatment for depression that has become increasingly common.

Perry began seeking more ketamine than his doctor would give him. About a month before the actor’s death, he found Plasencia, who in turn asked Chavez to obtain the drug for him.

“I wonder how much this moron will pay,” Plasencia texted Chavez. The two met up the same day in Costa Mesa, halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, and exchanged at least four vials of ketamine.

After selling the drugs to Perry for $4,500, Plasencia asked Chavez if he could keep supplying them so they could become Perry’s “go-to.”

Perry struggled with addiction for years, dating back to his time on “Friends,” when he became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing. He starred alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 on NBC’s megahit sitcom.

Five people have been charged for various offenses contributing to Matthew Perry’s ketamine death. Though Matthew’s personal assistant has already plead guilty to a relatively minor federal charge after administering the final fatal dose, could the state seek even more serious punishment?

Dock workers, nearly 45,000 of them from as far north as Maine to as far south as Texas, have dropped their hardhats for a hard stance as they begin walking the picket line. 

But the strikes haven’t had any direct impact on the West Coast, including the Port of LA — at least, not yet.

Ports in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and British Columbia are unionized under the “International Longshore and Warehouse Union” instead, or ILWU. The ILWU isn’t expected to hold a similar stoppage. It ratified its most recent six-year contract last year, which garnered 75% overall approval from workers. 

The potential long term effects on the West Coast are still ambiguous. In an interview with CNBC Tuesday morning, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said several importers have “fractionally shifted” some of their allocations to the twin ports of LA, busiest container port in North America, and Long Beach.

Seroka said the ports are prepared if the strike forces a diversion of shipments from the East and Gulf coast ports to Southern California.

“The underlying US economy remains strong,” Seroka said on CNBC. “These purchase orders that go in from retailers and manufacturers typically start off the process 90 to 100 days before cargo makes its way here to the West Coast. Those numbers continue to be strong.

“On the ground, for about a year and a half now, folks have been a little bit worried about protracted labor negotiations, and have told me they fractionally shipped some of their allocations over the past months here to Los Angeles and Long Beach.”

Seroka also said Southern California ports are currently operating at 80-percent effective capacity and that they “still have room to grow.” There are no backlogs, he said.

CNBC reported the areas most affected by the strike stand to include auto parts, apparel, home furnishings, and sporting goods. 

NBCLA has reached out to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for more details.

According to NBC News, the work stoppage is expected to cost the U.S. economy between several hundred million, and $4.5 billion per day. 

About $34 billion in cargo is currently en route to East Coast ports. Just a one-day strike could create nearly a week of congestion. If the strike reaches two weeks, congestion could extend as far as 2025, deeply affecting the upcoming holiday season.