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Site: Church of San Juan Bautista
Coixtlahuaca.
Location: On the
floor in the south chapel (see
note).
Media and construction: Polychrome.
Virgin
of the Assumption
Local Name: La Virgen de la
Asunción.
Basis for Identification: Praying
hands, horned moon.
Comparable santos in Oaxaca: Ejutla1, Ejutla2,
Mitla1, Mitla2,
Tamazulapan, Teitipac,
Tlacolula,
Tlaxiaco,
Tule.
External Links:
Wikimedia Commons:
Statues
of the Assumption of Mary in Mexico
Wikipedia: Assumption
of Mary
Christian Iconography: The
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
St. Peter
Local Name: San Pedro.
Basis for Identification: Keys in
left hand.
Comparable santos in Oaxaca: Etla, Huitzo, Mitla, Díaz
Ordaz,
Tamazulapan, Teitipac1,
Teitipac2,
Teotitlán1,
Teotitlán2, Teposcolula1,
Teposcolula2, Yanhuitlán.
External Links:
Wikimedia Commons: Statues
of St. Peter in Mexico
Catholic Encyclopedia: St.
Peter, Prince of the Apostles
Wikipedia: Saint
Peter
Christian Iconography: Saint
Peter the Apostle
Next: A statue of the Virgin
and Child, also in the south chapel.
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Note: On
this
site,
references to the cardinal directions always assume
that the main altar is at the east end of the church,
the narthex or entry area at the west end, and the two
walls
of the nave on the
north and south. (The
nave is the long central section.)
Actual orientations may differ.
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