Santos in Oaxaca's Ancient Churches
A 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 Nochixtlán:
Calvary
Group
Our Lady of Sorrows
Unidentified Female
(Mary Magdalene?)
It was entirely
depopulated owing to epidemics in the years following the
Spanish arrival to Mexico but then re-established by
Francisco Orozco and about 50 Mixtec intellectuals and
commerçants. In the church we will examine the
altar of