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Find peace at 'Tiny Chapel in the Woods'
“I want people to have a little refuge, a little retreat,” said Leo Ornelas of her Tiny Chapel in the Woods on her farmland in Floresville. Inspired by a “little tiny church” she saw on the way to Corpus Christi and her “city folk” grandchildren’s love of the outdoors, Leo created a little chapel for people in need of a space for prayer and meditation. Every morning at 8 a.m., Leo opens the gate to her property, allowing visitors to enter and enjoy the refuge that her tiny chapel offers. Both former schoolteachers, Leo and her husband, Pastor Sil Ornelas,...