Saints, Statues, and Stories: A Folklorist Looks at the Religious Art of Sonora

. . . we move to the town of Aconchi on the Río Sonora, where the mission church once contained a life—sized crucifix with a black corpus, known both as Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas . . . and El Cristo Negro de Aconchi . . .

So describes well—known and beloved folklorist James S. Griffith as he takes us back through the decades to a town in northern Sonora where a statue is saved—and in so doing, a community is saved as well.

In Saints, Statues, and Stories Griffith shares stories of nearly ...