The retablo recapitulates the story of Creation and the highlights of Christianity. The east chapel of Our Sorrowing Mother attracts Papago Indians to Her devotion. She is the grieving Mother of Christ, and memory of her rests secure on the former frontier of New Spain. Illustration . . . Her clothes are laundered and changed and her eighteenth-century crown of silver is carefully cleaned.
Angels are everywhere.
They are musicians and candlesticks. They tie back plaster drapes and support niches and statues of saints. Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Order of Friars Minor and patron of today's Franciscan missionaries, the friars whose duty it is to serve the Papago people. Color Illustration of Saint Francis of Assisi. Illustration . . .