As a transfiguring model of the temple - sacred enclosure - from which it derives its function as a medium for contemplation, elevation of the soul above any ordinary way of knowing, with a simple and affective conception of the supernal, votive shrines do not belong to a bourgeois religiosity, worldly and pharisaic, made up of Sunday masses in cathedrals, of governors occupying the benches closest to the altar. They're the mirror of an orphic, popular, pure spirituality.