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With the horrors of Halloween and the Day of the Dead coming up, we thought it appropriate to end our series of posts on the Xoxoteco murals...

As we noted in our earlier post, the tiny chapel of Santa Maria Xoxoteco is the repository of some of the most remarkable murals in Mexico....

The chapel of Santa Maria Xoxoteco in the Sierra Alta region of Hidalgo contains some of the most remarkable murals in Mexico.  Uncovered on...

In our continuing series of occasional posts * on the depiction of less common saints in Mexico, we consider the case of t he   Scottish th...

Our third and final post on San Nicolás looks at its gilded altarpiece, a spectacular example of the "Salomonic" baroque style. ...

In our second post on San Nicolás, we consider the church interior.  There are two main features of interest here: the ceiling and the main...

We take a break (mostly) from Mexican crosses to resume our series on the old missions of Michoacán. In a series of three posts we will lo...