Saints Santos Shrines
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Wooden sculptures and relief paintings of saints such as St. Francis, the Blessed Virgin, and Apostles of Christ have for centuries been objects of devotion and worship in the Southwest Catholic culture. This centuries-old heritage is celebrated here through photographs, essay, and literary quotes that beautifully bring the devotion into focus.
Crafting saints has always been seen as a high calling. These santeros and santeras (saint makers) created santos—images of saints, Christ, the Trinity, and Holy Family—painting them on wooden panels called retablos. They carved and painted wooden sculptures called bultos. And if they built a home chapel, they carved and painted an altar screen, or altar retablo, called a reredos, that was made up of smaller retablos and sometimes adorned with bultos.
John Annerino is the author and photographer of seventeen distinguished photography books and thirty-two single-artist calendars, including The Virgin of Guadalupe (Gibbs Smith), Ancient America, New Mexico Wild & Scenic, Arizona Wild & Scenic, and the awardwinning books Desert Light, Indian Country, Grand Canyon Wild, Canyons of the Southwest, The Wild Country of Mexico, and Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo (acclaimed by the Rodeo Hall of Fame). He lives in Tucson.
John Annerino
John Annerino is the photographer and author of sixteen distinguished photography books, including the award-winning Desert Light, Indian Country, Vanishing Borderlands, Canyons of the Southwest, The Wild Country of Mexico, and Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo. His work has also appeared in National Geographic Adventure, LIFE, Newsweek, People, Scientific American, Time, and Travel & Leisure. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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Saints Santos Shrines - John Annerino
AUTHOR
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
The Virgin of Guadalupe: Art and Legend
Indian Country: Sacred Ground, Native Peoples
Vanishing Borderlands: The Fragile Landscape of the U.S./Mexico Border
Desert Light: A Photographer’s Journey through America’s Desert Southwest
Canyon Country: A Photographic Journey
Grand Canyon Wild: A Photographic Journey
Apache: The Sacred Path to Womanhood
Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo
People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest
The Wild Country of Mexico: La tierra salvaje de México
Canyons of the Southwest: A Tour of the Great Canyon Country from Colorado to Northern Mexico
High Risk Photography: The Adventure Behind the Image
New Mexico: A Photographic Tribute
Arizona: A Photographic Tribute
The Photographer’s Guide: To the Grand Canyon
The Photographer’s Guide: To Canyon Country
Our Lady of Guadalupe handmade and hand-painted tile mosaic by Ginny Moss Rothwell, Tucson, Arizona. / Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe azulejo de mosaico pintado y hecho a mano por Ginny Moss Rothwell, Tucson, Arizona.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This wonderful project came to fruition through the talents of my editor Madge Baird, book designer Tracy Sunrize Johnson, design assistant Melissa Dymock, and production editor Renee Bond at publisher Gibbs Smith, and my wife, translator, and confidant, Alejandrina Sierra.
Many kind people, artists, and collectors opened their doors to my inquisitive eyes for the devotional art, folklore, and history. Among them, Lance Laber, Executive Director of the DeGrazia Foundation and Gallery in the Sun, who painted a tapestry of the art and life of Ettore Ted
DeGrazia in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains; the multicultural community of San Xavier del Bac Mission, Jesuit Fathers of Southern Arizona; photographer and filmmaker Oscar Hermán Saénz; artist and collector Ronald MacBain; private collectors María García, Angela López, and Josefina Lizarraga; and artist Ginny Moss Rothwell. I am also grateful to my friend Lucinda Bush, and her sister Marisa Bush, for coordinating my photographic pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City. Thanks to R. James Hills, who first introduced me to the art, people, and lifeways of the Comcáac (Seri people
) of Desemboque, Sonora. And to Ángel Paco
Fierro Gil for guiding me through a wild barranca in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara.
Santero Adán Ulivarri Carriaga invited me to his home studio in Plaza Vieja, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to photograph his work and collection of santos and retablos in his family’s Holy Child of Atocha Oratory produced by master santeros Pedro Antonio Fresquís, José Arragón, Charles M. Carrillo, Alcario Otero, Gustavo Victor Goler; master santera Arlene Cisneros Sena; santeros Mark García, Nicolas R. Otero, Fedencio Prudencio, Jimmy E. Trujillo; and santeras Marie Antoinette Luna and Jenina Carriaga-Lambert.
My travels for this book culminated in a rare visit with ninety-year-old master santero Eulogio Ortega in his home chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the mountains of Velarde, New Mexico, which hosts an extraordinary altar retablo carved by him and painted by his late wife, master santera Zoraida Ortega.
Thank you.
The Sorrowing Mother, east transept, San Xavier del Bac Mission, Arizona. / Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, transepto este, Misión de San Xavier del Bac, Arizona.
HALLOWED PASSAGES
It is a bright September day that holds the promise of good things to come. The wind is warm. The sky is deep blue. And the sweep of black lava desert, tinged with gold from the afternoon sun, stretches for miles and miles around me, whichever way I