 Some of which include her suicide by drowning, her leaving to train others for war and that she killed herself for falling in love with a Spanish monk.One legend even claims that she was kidnapped by her own people and put into a temple so that the Spaniards should not find and kill her.When Lázaro Cárdenas was governor of Michoacán, he built a house in Pátzcuaro, which he named "La Quinta Eréndira."