Santos in Oaxaca's Ancient ChurchesA study of santos in 16th-century and other churches in Oaxaca, Mexico
By Claire and Richard Stracke Funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation In San Pedro y San Pablo
Etla:
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San Pedro y San Pablo Etla |
Etla is in the northwest of Oaxaca's Central
Valley. The church, monastery, and cloister were completed
in 1636. As of 2005 the population was 7637. In 1991 we
were privileged to be taken around the church and the
former convento by the encargado de la parroquia.
Our tour begins with St.
Anthony of Padua. The photo shown here is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free to share or remix it on two conditions: first, that you attribute it to the photographer, Thelmadatter, without implying any approval of your work on their part; second, that if you alter, transform, or build upon this photo, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. |