SAN ROQUE, Invoked Against Pandemic   In these, the pandemic years, no other saint has been heard more often than SAN ROQUE as his name is i...

THE SLEEPING CHRIST CHILD, personal collection The image of the sleeping Jesus in sacred art is drawn from His birth in Bethlehem, where He ...

NAZARENO OF QUIAPO, AFTER ITS RESTORATION. Since I retired, I have gone easy on buying old, slightly-flawed santos for restoration. I can se...

  THE HANDMADE MONASTIC-INSPIRED ART OF CHRISTIAN LACAP When monasteries became centers for learning and religious training, there rose a ne...