Aside from covered statues or Catholic artwork, you might also notice outside of the church that crosses on lawns or elsewhere are covered in other ways. One common way is a purple cloth draped ...

Purple-colored cloth draped over wooden crosses, gold-and-white vestments worn by clergy, black drapery across pulpit lecterns, white Easter lilies on the floor of sanctuaries: These are some ...

The importance of the fabric-draped cross is reflected in the town’s very name, which means “Holy Cross of the Flowered Hill.”(Credit: Eduardo Verdugo/AP.) Listen SANTA CRUZ XOCHITEPEC ...