"The Spirit of Healing" Mural at Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital - San Antonio, TX, USA
N 29° 25.584 W 098° 29.935
14R E 548604 N 3255333
An eight-story high mural of an guardian angel watching over a young boy is the focal point of the Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital entrance that is across Houston street from Milam Park, in San Antonio, TX.
Waymark Code: WM9XJA
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/11/2010
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In the 500 block of W. Houston Street in San Antonio there is an eight-story high angel watching over the Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital. This angel is part of a ginormous mural, reputed to be the largest in the USA(1). The artist who created "The Spirit of Healing" is local artist Jesse Trevino(1,2). The mural is composed of 2,000 pieces of tile of 70 different colors placed together to create a 93 feet by 43 feet wide mural on the side wall of the hospital adjacent Milam Park(1). Jesse Trevino's son was used as the model for the young boy shown in the mural(2). Trevino is an accomplished muralist who works with only one hand. His right hand was lost in Vietnam while he was on military duty there. After years of recovery, he relearned how to continue his art, and this angelic mural is both symbolic to him in his recovery and overcoming setbacks, and to the children and their families who come to this hospital(1). The coordinates are taken from across W. Houston Street along the edge of Milam Park where viewing the mural is best.
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