The Infant Jesus of Prague

Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, California

The salient features of this iconographic type are the crown, the orb, and an elaborately dressed figure of a child. This example is like those in Mexico and Europe that use a fabric dress.

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Photographed at the mission by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.