A. Rivera> Blessing a Puerto Rican tradition with a museum of saintly figures https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/blessing-a-puerto-rican-tradition-with-a-museum-of-saintly-figures
I was not always a happy #heathen, and my mom (RIP) was a devout #Catholic who also collected santos (wood carved saints). In fact, for our wedding, we received from my parents a small Three Kings wood carved statue (it is stored now) to keep the tradition alive. Nice to see efforts at #preservation.
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Blessing a Puerto Rican tradition with a museum of saintly figures
By CHRISTINE NEGRONISan Juan shared the common space with a display of wooden saints carved in the past by Puerto Rican artists. Some of the pint-size statues, called santos, were centuries old. Rural Roman Catholics who could not travel to the island’s city-based churches used them in home altars. Holm soon discovered their power to attract if not pilgrims, at least overnight guests.“Staying in a museum proved to be very popular when I joined Airbnb in 2009,” he told me in an interview.No one k