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2. The Northwest Posa  This chapel is dedicated to St. Francis, reinforcing the link between the Seraphic Order and the Passion of Chr...

San Andrés Calpan, Puebla Founded in 1548 by Fray Juan de Alameda, the monastery of San Andrés Calpan sits in a sleepy hill town set a...

As part of our ongoing series on Mexico's stone crosses, we publish the occasional post on the sculpted stone crucifixes often found on...

In a previous post in this series, we looked at the monolithic baptismal font at Tlalmanalco , whose rim was inscribed with the Latin legend...

In a previous post we described the architecture of Todos Santos Zempoala, an early Franciscan monastic complex in the state of Hidalgo, to...

In our first post on Otumba we looked at the sculpted doorways of the church and convento.  For our second post we survey other examples of...

OTUMBA   Place of the Otomi  High on the high northeastern rim of the Valley of Mexico, Otumba has the only regional place name to comme...