Garden of Gethsemane by Felix Lucero



Sculptor - Felix Lucero







This Garden of Gethsemane was created by Felix Lucero.  He was an untrained sculptor that made these out of damped riverbed sand.  As he lay dying from injuries in a World War 1 battlefield, he made God a promise.  In 1938, he began to make these to fulfill the promise he made.  While he worked on them he lived in a cardboard and plywood shack under a bridge.  The statues remained along the riverbed.  Several years ago, the river flooded taking homes and many other things in it's path downstream.  The statues miraculously were spared.  The city has since moved them to safer grounds in a small quiet park where there too many people come to pray much like their creator did many years ago.