Our
Lady
of Sorrows
Local Name: La Madre de los Dolores
Basis for Identification: Upturned
gaze, praying hands, dark garments, crown. Very similar
to the Soledad
versions of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Site: Church of San Juan Bautista
Coixtlahuaca.
Location: In a glass
case
in the first bay of the south wall of the nave
(see note).
Comparable santos in Oaxaca: Achiutla,
Santa Ana del
Valle, Cuilapan1,
Cuilapan2,
Ejutla, Mitla, Nochixtlán,
Ocotlán, Díaz
Ordaz, Tamazulapan,
Teitipac,
Teotitlán,
Teposcolula
(in Calvary group), Tlacolula,
Xoxocotlán,
Yanhuitlán (?), Zimatlán.
External Links:
Wikimedia Commons:
Mater
dolorosa
Wikipedia: Our
Lady
of Sorrows
Christian Iconography: Mater
Dolorosa,
The Sorrowful Mother
Next: In
the same bay in the south wall, a statue of an
unidentified saint.
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Introduction to San Juan Bautista
Coixtlahuaca
Santos Home Page
Note: On
this
site,
references to the cardinal directions always assume
that the main altar is at the east end of the church,
the narthex or entry area at the west end, and the two
walls
of the nave on the
north and south. (The
nave is the long central section.)
Actual orientations may differ.
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