Steve Selka (Emeritus) published a chapter titled “Our Lady of the Underpass” in the volume American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism, edited by Katherine Dugan and Karen Park. The volume was published by Fordham University Press this year. Steve’s chapter focuses on a Marian apparition site on the north side of Chicago. In 2005, an image formed by salt runoff that resembled the Virgin Mary appeared on the wall of the I-90 and Fullerton Avenue underpass. Since then, devotees have maintained the space below and around the image as a makeshift shrine. Steve explores the site as a place where boundaries are continually negotiated and contested, including those between neighborhoods and nations, the sacred and the profane, and between what is and what is not American religion.
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