I believe I put this picture up when I took it around a year ago, but I still like it. It’s a picture of the magnetic Virgin Mary statue on the dashboard of my father-in-law Honorio’s 1985 Land Cruiser.
Many cars here have little magnets, decals, air fresheners, and other doo-dads that display saints, prayers, and other religious imagery. I guess in the US people have the “Jesus Fish” bumper thingy, but that’s about it, usually. Here there’s like a whole little subculture based around these trinkets.
I do wonder, though, in which direction Mary is supposed to face. Should she be placed to look at the drivers to better protect them, as well as provide a happy face to pray to, or should she be placed looking forward, providing her with a nice view of the oncoming road?
Maybe it’s one of those things–like taking communion–that I’m not allowed to know about since I’m not Catholic.
Who knows.
Many cars here have little magnets, decals, air fresheners, and other doo-dads that display saints, prayers, and other religious imagery. I guess in the US people have the “Jesus Fish” bumper thingy, but that’s about it, usually. Here there’s like a whole little subculture based around these trinkets.
I do wonder, though, in which direction Mary is supposed to face. Should she be placed to look at the drivers to better protect them, as well as provide a happy face to pray to, or should she be placed looking forward, providing her with a nice view of the oncoming road?
Maybe it’s one of those things–like taking communion–that I’m not allowed to know about since I’m not Catholic.
Who knows.
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