Exhibition films
These films accompanying the exhibition provide some background
to the places and ways in which votive paintings are made and
used in present-day Mexico.
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Maria Isabel Cuellar comes from a Guanajuato mining family. She raised 15 children. Here she describes her disastrous early attempts to make tortillas and how she prayed to the Senor de Villaseca for assistance.
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The feast day of St Francis on 4 October is part of a week-long annual fiesta attracting thousands of pilgrims to Real de Catorce, many of whom camp out in the surrounding hills and desert. Open-air masses are held and the image of St Francis is paraded through the streets of the town.
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Professor Campos discusses the role of faith in miracles in contemporary Mexico, and the role of religion at a time of economic and social crisis.
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A family from Monterey honour a promise made by their father in thanks for his miraculous recovery from an accident.
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Panorama of the mining settlement.
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