San Lorenzo Street, one of All the Saints of the City of the Angels

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Michael Walker</div> <div> <IMG SRC="18458020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="846"><div> <B>San Lorenzo Street</B></div> <div> Our lives pass by like San Lorenzo's Tears</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 615 ><NOBR><div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="757" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 558 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="21b4dd40.jpg" border=0 width="333" height="468" ALT="San Lorenzo Street, from J Michael Walker’s All the Saints of the City of the Angels" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="407"><div> Hidden away in Santa Monica Canyon, Los Angeles' only family cemetery provides a link to the 1830's, when the Reyes and Márquez families owned Rancho la Boca de Santa Mónica<I><B>.</B></I><I> </I>The cemetery evolved as Márquez family members passed away and were buried in the distant canyon.</div> <bR> <div> Even after the rancho was subdivided and developed, in the 1920's, the cemetery remained intact, protected by an adobe wall commissioned by the developer's daughter, Dorothy. Dorothy bought a saint's statue to guard the cemetery's gate, and her dad gave the saint's name to the street out front: San Lorenzo.</div> <bR> <div> <B>San Lorenzo's Tears</B> is the ancient name people gave to the Perseid meteor showers that stream from the sky every mid-August - on the feast day of San Lorenzo, a 3rd century deacon of the Church and defender of the poor, who died a fiery death.</div> <bR> <div> One pictures<I><B> </B></I>San Lorenzo's Tears darting over Márquez Cemetery, underscoring the transience of our lives, yes, but also lamenting the nights when those tears streaked bright against skies of ebony over Rancho<I> la Boca de Santa Mónica</I>, and throughout all the ancient Tongva and Chumash lands</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 34 WIDTH="846"><bR> <div> <B>This website, all images and all text Copyright 2008 by J Michael Walker. 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