Roberto Gonzalez
An annocence not found in many places
Not on any map or in any travel guide, not even on the internet. It appears suddenly in the middle of a farm next to the road. You pass it and see something ... turn around with the car and now you see a little more. You stop on the side on the road, as there is no parking and you get closer. It seems to be one of those compositions that they put on Bethlehem on Christmas, this tiny cave that is put into a corner and it looks fake, made of cork .. The geology of the Earth allows the impossible to be possible, which can be a lava bubble up to the surface that explodes. Faith does the rest. A walker sees some light, others a diffuse into the rock, a request and a response and in a moment we have a chapel.
What catches attention is the candor and innocence with which the images are composed, simple, as made by children. An altar of artificial flowers, figurines and candles, and a stone floor and earth, as it should be at first Fatima or Lourdes, or any of the Marian apparition places around the world. It makes you want to stay there and enjoy that innocence, unadorned faith that seems to be present in so few places. But we had to go our way, and we still think that we received a signal...
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