The little church

 

 

West of Highway 281 on Texas 117.  Out toward La Gloria.  I located it on google maps:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Guadalupe+Toreros+Church/@26.6364329,-98.3403389,856m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8665c8cf19d6c79d:0xbeeafaaffe06465a!8m2!3d26.6364281!4d-98.3381449

 

It’s the Guadalupe Toreros Church.  Toreros means bullfighters.  A neighborhood Catholic church built about 1920 and in service until about 20 years ago.  The nearest church at the time was ten miles away.  A twenty-mile round trip was a difficult distance for the parishioners, given the condition of the roads at the time, and this little church solved the transportation problem.

 

I find things like this really moody.  I stand in the quiet and imagine the laughter and life.  For eighty years it had sights and sounds, but is derelict by its centennial today.

 

 

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