This token of private devotion after a near-death experience speaks to how smaller communities in Mexico resourcefully made their own religious images Cristo de Sacromonte ex-voto by Dr. Emmanuel Ortega and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
A small painting on tin shows a complex image of Saint Francis's hand bleeding into a cup, surrounded by lambs drinking the blood. Retablo of La Mano Poderosa/The All Powerful ... by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Emmanuel Ortega