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Religion - Sacred Periphery

22 images Created 25 Apr 2014

Sacred Suburbs, devotion that seems a thousand times closer to to Cuban "Santeria"
than the Catholic worship: in Naples Padre Pio is mixed with Maradona, the rite with superstition.
Each chapel tells a story, devotion born from the necessity that sometimes becomes a nightmare.
Walk between "ultra popular" neighborhoods, neighborhoods that have fewer years than me,
including buildings designed to make sure that there was no aggregation.
There is a chapel, there is life.
That chapel holds secrets and dramas, most of the time impassable, tears and pain that will remain
hidden in statues of marble and plaster decorations.
I am still walking and I know Vincent who has an angel tattooed on his shoulder that will pit.
I do not know if it is his devotion but the fact the he needs to be represented with wings in his story,
has something to do with it.

I continue my journey and I know Jesus, an illegal parking.
Jesus speaks of God, a kind of God who is there but not seen. He needs of the sacred, he needs also
answers that are struggling to come out of this world.
Jesus, for the cocaine habit, what God tells me that "sometimes pulls with him."
Jesus madonnas and saints, saints who no longer fly, on the walls of a house / room in the basement.
I am still walking, small four rooms on the ground floor of apartment buildings popular, that's
where the mothers of the neighborhood meet to pray, pray and hope that their childreen can do it,
they can save themselves from their surroundings.

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  • Virgin Mary statue in Naples
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  • Boys with banner of Virgin Mary in Naples suburbs
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  • a boy smoke a cigarette in background a rood
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  • dead images. Usually tradition in Naples and suburbs is keep images,about  family and friends dead, near statues of Virgin Mary and Jesus
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  • A woman during a religous procession
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  • a man with a tattoo. The saint that will put drug.
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  • Virgin Mary statue in Naples suburb.
    007.jpg
  • a Padre Pio statue in Naples suburb
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  • Naples suburb, Vesuvius on background
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  • a man called Jesus in Naples. He is a illegal parking.He is devoted
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  • religiuous procession in Naples suburb
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  • a Jesus and Padre Pio images in a recreational association
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  • religious procession in Naples suburb
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  • A man killed by the camorra during a religious procession
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  • inside a home in Naples suburb
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  • Jesus statue in Naples suburb
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  • statue in a home in Naples suburb
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  • a woman with a rosary
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  • a woman in Naples suburbs with her son image killed by camorra
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  • a man in a room used like religious site
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  • A Jesus image in Naples suburb
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  • Sacra Periferia/Sacred Suburbs
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