Ultra Folky Antique "Las Cruz de Animas" Retablo Painting on Tin international bible lessons I also love how it

I also love how it holds this fish tight against its chest in a gesture which

while the paler blue one sits on a little wooden perch

is in very good shape and looks great

I believe original to the piece

was adopted in 1851

Ultra Folky Antique "Las Cruz de Animas" Retablo Painting on Tin international bible lessons I also love how itThis to my sensibilities is a dream of a retablo, a very folky depiction of Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of animas sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory requiring the prayers of the living as well as the assistance of divine to release them to heaven. And this depiction is packed with both all of the (very excellent) usual symbols and then some, as