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In Mexico, Ornately Painted Churches Enshrine Years of Indigenous Resilience

In Mexico, Ornately Painted Church buildings Enshrine Years of Indigenous Resilience

FOR CENTURIES, THE very first thing that residents of the Mexican village of Nurio noticed after they walked by the heavy picket doorways of their adobe-plastered church was an orchestra of angels. Painted on pine panels mounted in an arch beneath the choir, the pictures have been seemingly accomplished within the mid-1600s, lower than 150