The Shrine
I once lived in a very French Catholic area of very rural New Brunssick. My job required that I get around the environs and one could often see the faithful with various religious effects to either remind them of their faith or show it to everyone else.

There were quite a few grottos, with the Mere de Dieu hanging out. One was actually a half-buried bathtub that created a sort of bandshell effect around the Virgin.

Many people would have shrines in their homes with candles, paintings and often statues or busts of Mary or Jesus. I will always remember going into one house with a sweet elderly woman who had a whole corner of her living room as a shrine, complete with candles, red foil paper as backdrop and a large shelf with three large busts of the personnages who would surely carry her back home to the Creator: Jesus, Mary and Elvis!
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 4:33, Reply)