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Shrines: Images of Italian Worship

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With only a few pages of introductory text and a handful of short musings inserted here and there, this book is really about the pictures. And what wonderful pictures they are, too. They remind me first of the year I spent in Florence right after college. But they also remind me, in a deeper, non-verbal way, of some longing to remember the Divine Feminine -- and especially to remember Mary, the Blessed Mother -- in the simple everyday moments of my life. Looking through the photos in this book becomes for me like a meditation -- every time I pick up the book. The photographic quality is excellent and the variety of artistic style in the different shrines is wide-ranging. But they all share some common element of devotion that is at once soothing sweet and deeply compelling.

A beautiful book, ideal for the cofeetable. It nicely documents private devotion in Italy. The photos are outstanding.

This book really shows the heart of the Italian countryside. The passion that people had to create such beautiful shrines in unlikely places really shows the role that religion plays in the daily lives of the Italians.