Shrine

Just uphill from Red Cross a white post caught my eye. It sort of looked like a highway sign, but something wasn’t quite right about it.

So we turned around.

When we parked we could see the crosses. Plural.

We had stumbled upon a shrine of some sort with descansos for maybe a dozen people. Initially I thought a bad car accident, but Amity pointed out that there were multiple “deceased” dates and even a stillborn baby, so something else was going on.

We decided it must just be a shrine based on the little alcove with the Virgin Mary in it. I had seen this before in Mexico but in a much more structured way.

There had to be a dozen crosses, possibly more, in a fifty foot radius around the little shrine.

The two crosses for Tony and “Baby” Garcia were poignant and made us think this was something other than a single event that led to this descanso; the dates were different for the two, and the baby only had one date which seems to be for a stillborn.

Someday, somehow I am going to figure these types of locations out. It’s fascinating to me given how remote this particular descanso is that so maybe would be memorialized in one place.