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The tradition of creating votive paintings goes back hundreds of years in Mexico, and can be found along the U.S.-Mexican border region and in the cities of the Southwest.
An ofrenda will have lit votive candles that are meant to help guide the soul to the ofrenda.
Home altars vary in size, from a small shelf with one votive candle and one saint or statue, to a large table altar, with many religious images, La Virgen de Guadalupe, flowers, pictures of saints, candles; a structure that can fill up half a room.
Just off Via della Scrofa is an old tower called Torre della Scimmia . A votive lamp permanently lit on this tower commemorates the miraculous rescue of a baby girl from a scimmia `pet monkey' that had carried her off to its top.
The maintenance of a family altar and reciting the rosary every day, lighting votive candles, blessing the children every night, the blessing of homes and yards, and making promises, mandas, to particular saints are all folk practices passed on from generation to generation.