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Description:

Photograph in rectangular format and horizontal layout. In a big long shot, a woman is walking barefoot, crouching her head. She’s preparing herself to pay a vow for Saint Rosa of Pelequén. Behind her, people are watching how she’s doing her act of faith.

Context:

The commemoration of the Santa Rosa of Pelequén shrine is a celebration made every August 30th from 1897 up to the present. This religious event of popular origin gathers thousands of devotees who come to pay their vows or grant their indulgences to this saint. As a member of the museum and before it, Oreste Plath made trips to different towns, Pelequén among them. His aim to bind religion and folklore together made him research popular trading, religious images on giant curtains, prayings, pottery (basket-making, ceramics, among others), games, songs, fun facts about the environment, objects such as religious vows, devotees’ origin and vows to the saint.

Subjects:
Chile, Outreach, Popular religiousness, Research and Teaching, Santa Rosa of Pelequén