Santos in Oaxaca's Ancient ChurchesA study of santos in 16th-century and other churches in Oaxaca, Mexico
By Claire and Richard Stracke Funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation In Tlacolula: Christ:
Ecce Homo |
Church of the Assumption,
Tlacolula |
Tlacolula de Matamoros is a town of more than
sixteen thousand people (as of 2005) in the Central Valley
region of Oaxaca. It is famous for its Baroque chapel,
known as the Capilla
del Señor de Tlacolula, the "Chapel of the
Lord of Tlacolula," seen on the right in the picture
above. In the chapel is a large crucifix,
the Señor
de Tlacolula, which has been the
object of local pilgrimages for centuries. The Capilla del Señor
de Tlacolula
In Tlacolula, our informant was the encargado Sr. Juan Santiago Jescas. Our tour will begin with the Señor de Tlacolula and some other santos in the Chapel, followed by two in the church itself. Photos by AlejandroLinaresGarcia. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify these documents under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. |