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Paperback Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present Book

ISBN: 0195367073

ISBN13: 9780195367072

Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

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In 1543, in a small village in Mexico, a group of missionary friars received from a mysterious Indian messenger an unusual carved image of Christ crucified. The friars declared it the most poignantly beautiful depiction of Christ's suffering they had ever seen. Known as the Cristo Aparecido (the "Christ Appeared"), it quickly became one of the most celebrated religious images in colonial Mexico. Today, the Cristo Aparecido is among the oldest New...

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