Descansos: Marking Passages
Dorothy Powell Senior Adult Center 405 E. 6th St., Casa Grande, AZ, United StatesMarking the location of deaths with crosses or descansos is a very old custom which has been traced back to twelfth-century Europe. The custom diffused to the Americas with the arrival of the conquistadors in the sixteenth century. This presentation traces the evolution and diffusion of the roadside memorial, the typology of the crosses, states’ […]