SAN DIEGO — Inside Kerrie Rodriguez’s tiny flower shop in southeast San Diego, a vibrant Día de los Muertos altar honors the lives of strangers, many of them victims of violence and crime. The altar ...

It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles and saw people from all over Mexico honoring their dead that I built my first Día de Muertos altar 13 years ago. Now, it is an annual rite I practice every Nov.

The ceremony backdrop is the focal point of your I dos and one of the most photographed locations of your entire day; it will help set the tone and aesthetic of everything that follows. Whether you ...

A fresh flower altar is an altar for funerals created using only fresh flowers that are also said to have originated in Kyushu or Hokkaido. It is a site that gathered various works of such a flower ...

Q. We’ve been having a bit of a debate among some parishioners and are hoping that you can help solve it. What is the rule for flowers on the altar in a Catholic church: Do they have to be fresh, or ...

Those who decorate an altar with flowers are particularly privileged, and in a special sense cooperators with Him. For the flowers are His own; and all who come into His House feel so. The altar vases ...

The first fragments of the remarkable ancient Roman monument called the Ara Pacis (“Altar of Peace”) were found in the early sixteenth century. For the next four hundred years, the large marble altar, ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Inside Kerrie Rodriguez’s tiny flower shop in southeastern San Diego, a vibrant Día de los Muertos altar honors the lives of strangers, many of them victims of violence and crime.