CHELSEA — Kristen Beckles has been attending Mass at the Church of St. Francis Xavier for eight years and loves almost everything about it — except that when she looks at the statues and paintings of saints displayed around the church, she never sees any that resembles her.
As a woman of color, Beckles is longing for depictions of saints and icons that reflect…
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