Mission Soledad Church
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Mission Soledad Church |
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[Note: At this Mission flash photography is expressly forbidden in all areas. Therefore, many pictures here and in the museum are heavily edited from dim digital images. While they are original, the Stations of the Cross are in too dim lighting to take a picture I could do anything with even with extensive editing. The front of the church has both natural and artificial lighting so it yields reasonable images after editing.]
| This is a medium long shot of the interior of the church. Note the use of original painting styles and colors. The painting of Our Lady of Refuge that hangs in the sanctuary is an original from the Mission. |  Picture taken 1:55pm 1 Sep 2003 |
 Picture taken 1:55pm 1 Sep 2003 |
 Picture taken 1:55pm 1 Sep 2003 |
| In particular, note the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows above the altar. It's the only primary statue that is dressed in cloth in all of the missions I have visited so far. Note, also, above the statue the wall painting representing the seven piercings of the heart that Mary is said to have sustained. [If you've forgotten: (1) Prophesy of Simeon, (2) Flight to Egypt, (3) Child Jesus lost in Temple, (4) Meeting Jesus carrying cross, (5) The Crucifixion, (6) Receiving body of Jesus from cross, (7) Placing Jesus in tomb.] |
| Just outside the entrance to the church from the area of the gift shop hangs a period piece also showing Our Lady of Sorrows. |  Picture taken 1:55pm 1 Sep 2003 |
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