In spring 2000, Los Angeles artist J Michael Walker noticed that in this city named for a saint (Nuestra Senora de los Angeles), there ranged dozens of streets named for saints.

He received a small grant to portray Downtown's "saint-streets" in city bus shelters - essentially, talking about the streets on the streets.

As he began researching the histories of the streets and the stories of the saints, interesting points of convergence revealed themselves --

San Julian Street, where the city's homeless and the clinics serving them gather, was named for a saint who wandered the earth before serving and sheltering other wanderers.

Tiny, forlorn Santa Clara Street, southeast of Downtown, mirrors the saint's vow of poverty; and the sweatshops there complement her patronage of embroiderers.

And so it went, street by street, saint by saint.

After portraying this first cluster of saint-streets, J Michael set off across the City of the Angels, neighborhood by neighborhood, for eight years, until he had uncovered and revealed each one:

All 103 of the streets named for saints in L.A. --

All the Saints of the City of the Angels