Copper Flaming Heart Milagro- 2 ^1/4 inch day of the dead banners Dime Size Paper Roses

Dime Size Paper Roses

Hand painted in Mexico

This is enough to make for an entire school class

Verbena is my favorite scent - kind of a cross between lemon and a walk in the grassy hillsides

Copper Flaming Heart Milagro- 2 ^1/4 inch day of the dead banners Dime Size Paper RosesMilagros are votive offerings to ask for healing in the Catholic Church. They are made many different ways around the world, but they basically are used as a symbolic image of what needs to be healed. Then hung on the wall behind the saint or on the clothing of the saint inside the church. Devout parishioners make milagros out of what they have lost wax casting methods or hammering sheets of tin and silver are typical kinds of milagros.