This Christmas story, tender and deeply stirring, and told with color and suspense, is set in New Mexico in 1809... It is the story of the brothers Roberto and Carlos Castillo, the one lit by imaginative fire, the other by practical wisdom. Together, the brothers made an art of the craft of saintmaking, taught them by an itinerant Franciscan father. A century after their lifetime, the wooden figures they carved and plastered and painted became museum pieces and collectors' items...
