Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

La Ermita: the Miami home of Cuba’s patroness…

A mysterious floating statuette – or rather, the Lady it portrays – has reached across four centuries and thousands of miles to unite Cubans in patriotism, peoplehood, Christian faith and Marian devotion. Our Lady of Charity, whose feast day falls on Sept. 8, is honored at the Vatican, in Washington, D.C., and in her original shrine in El Cobre…