Semana Santa is Spanish for Holy Week. [click2015] [click2017] It is the sixth year for La Sagrada Familia Cleveland to create Alfombras de Semana Santa (Carpets of Holy Week). Sacred Heart Lorain has been following the Meso-American custom for about twenty years. Here in the cold north, flowers are replaced with painted sawdust. Religious vignettes are portrayed, and the transitory nature of life and man's creation is shown by their destruction under foot on Black Friday.
Before the alfombra is laid down a cartouche is drawn, which will be filled with colored sawdust.
colored sawdust is laid down in sections
San Óscar Romero
Father Robert Reidy looks onto the stage where the children are shown the materials the alfombras are made from. Perhaps future artists are being introduced to the form.
walking among the unfinished carpets
Miriam Hernandez, catechist at La Sagrada Familia, is creating a version of an eastern rite iconic representation of Jesus in a style representative of eastern Anatolia and Levantine Christianity. Her alfombra is a tribute to the suffering of Middle Eastern Christians.
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