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This 4 page paper looks at a public shrine in Los Angeles, California, how it is constructed and its art displayed, how it functions within its community, and how it creates a sense of place. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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on the streets. This paper looks at a public shrine in a Los Angeles neighborhood. Discussion Los Angeles has a huge Latino population; a 2005 article says that "Latinos make
up nearly 45% of the Los Angeles population" (Macgregor, 2005). With the soaring population have come quasi-religious and religious developments, like botanicas-stores that sell alternative medicines, religious materials, "candles, incense,
potions, lotions, rosaries and a pantheon of Catholic and folk saints" (Macgregor, 2005) - and public shrines. One such shrine is in Santa Ana, a Los Angeles suburb; it belongs
to Socorro Galvan and stands on her front lawn (Fernandez, 1999). The shrine is a "stone statue of the Virgin Mary" standing "three feet inside a brick enclosure that Galvans
husband built so that his wife could shout her faith to the world" (Fernandez, 1999). The Galvans daughter gave the statue to her mother as a Christmas gift ten years
ago; since then, it has become something of a neighborhood shrine, not just a private one (Fernandez, 1999). Its a place "where parents cross themselves and pray while walking their
children to school"; one person who comes by regularly throws dollars at the Virgin Mary (Fernandez, 1999). Socorro Galvan says her first Hail Mary of the day before she attends
daily Mass in a church across the street (Fernandez, 1999). Galvan says she finds the statue is a great comfort: "All of my problems, especially my worries over my children,
I turn over to her" (Fernandez, 1999). She says that she met a lady who wanted to display a similar statue, but was afraid it would cause bad feelings in
her neighborhood (Fernandez, 1999). Not Galvan: "I can shout to anyone that Im Catholic" (Fernandez, 1999). Icons like Galvans statue of the Virgin are of course nothing new in the
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