Do you know the Roman Catholic religious folk paintings called "ex-voto"?
They have usually been painted in gratitude for divine intervention in resolving some danger or problem.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Riveras collected over 1,000 ex-votos.
Bill and I saw some of this stupendous collection today at Mexico City's Museo Frida Kahlo.
Here is the museum wall-text: "Dated between 1842 and 1934, these works comprise one of the largest collections of ex-votos in Mexico."
We'll just present them one after another.
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