Copper Flaming Heart Milagro 2 ^3/4 inch Socks and hemmed on the perimeter

and hemmed on the perimeter with special fabric bias tape

An arm would be places on the fabric skirt of a saint's statue on a side altar of a church to request healing of your child's broken arm

gold & green mylar

These are not trimmed and do not have umbrella holes

This is a matriarchal society that Frida Kahlo fell in fascination with in the late 1930s

Copper Flaming Heart Milagro 2 ^3/4 inch Socks and hemmed on the perimeterMilagros 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.