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"I dedicate the present
retablo to the Holiest Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos for
having saved me from a Texan who tried to carry me off. I
hid under a tree by the side of the road with my little
borther."
Retablo of
Concepción Zapata. 1948. Oil on metal.
14 x
19.5 cm.
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Source: Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massay, Miracles
on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States.
(Tucson: University
of Arizona Press, 1995. xvi, 216 pp. Cloth, $52.00,
ISBN 0816514712. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0816514976), 139. |
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