{"id":229,"date":"2008-12-23T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:40:03","slug":"three-santos-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/three-santos-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Santos for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-231\" title=\"La Huida a Egipto by Carlos Santiago Arroyo. Photo by Jason Dowdle.\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/arroyo_lahuida.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"La Virgen de los Reyes by Carlos Santiago Arroyo. Photo by Jason Dowdle.\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/arroyo_lavirgen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Santos<\/em>, literally &#8220;saints&#8221; in Spanish, represent a centuries-old tradition of religious devotion practiced by Latino artisans. Here are three, handcarved and painted by Puerto Rican native,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massfolkarts.org\/object_detail.asp?ObjectID=8010064\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Santiago Arroyo <\/a>of Amherst. You can see them by visiting the &#8220;Sacred Expressions&#8221; room of the exhibition,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massfolkarts.org\" target=\"_blank\">Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts<\/a> at the  <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalheritagemuseum.org\/default.aspx?tabid=474\" target=\"_blank\">National Heritage Museum <\/a>in Lexington.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-234\" title=\"La Mano Poderosa by Carlos Santiago Arroyo. Photo by Jason Dowdle.\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/arroyo_lamanopoderosa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santos, literally &#8220;saints&#8221; in Spanish, represent a centuries-old tradition of religious devotion practiced by Latino artisans. Here are three, handcarved and painted by Puerto Rican native, Carlos Santiago Arroyo of Amherst. You can see them by visiting the &#8220;Sacred Expressions&#8221; room of the exhibition, Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/three-santos-for-the-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three Santos for the Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[108,109,110],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","tag-puerto-rican-woodcarving","tag-santos","tag-the-virgin-mary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Santos for the Season - Keepers of Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/three-santos-for-the-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Santos for the Season - Keepers of Tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Santos, literally &#8220;saints&#8221; in Spanish, represent a centuries-old tradition of religious devotion practiced by Latino artisans. 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