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A National Historic Landmark, El Santuario de Chimayó is decorated with original examples of 19th century Hispanic religious folk art, including santos and religious frescoes.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Testimonios “The All-Powerful Hand of Christ”, a painted wood santos by Norberto Cedeño, is in this exhibition of “popular expression” at El Museo del Barrio.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2012

A wall relief featuring haloed saints painted on individual lengths of two-by-fours attached to a board of dappled color seems obliquely related to the santos tradition.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2012

One does not look for subtlety of meaning in the santos.

From Time Magazine Archive

People were treating those pudgy, diminutive Floresta santos the way one might treat a voodoo doll.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols