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Raquel’s Ex-Voto

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Destination: Oaxaca, Mexico

Shrines, churches, and sanctuaries throughout Mexico are adorned with the small oil paintings known as ex-votos. Typically painted on sheets of tin or copper, ex-votos are offered as testimony and thanks to a particular saint whose divine intervention saved the petitioner from sickness, death, or disaster—the story of which accompanies the painting.

Roughly translated, it reads: Thank you Virgin of Rosario because the police caught the rats that robbed my house. Raquel, Oaxaca. Mex. 1979.      

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The custom of ex-votos arrived in Mexico the same way the Catholic saints did—with the Spanish. Not too different from pre-existing indigenous practices of making offerings to the gods, ex-votos became popular firs... Read More

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5.8" x 4.7"

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