11 FEBRUARY 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A detail photo of street signs near Santa Cruz Church in the Thonburi section of Bangkok. The bottom, yellow and black sign, is pointing the way to Thanusingha Bakery, the top, blue, sign is the name of the street. The neighborhood around the church is known for the Thai adaptation of Portuguese cakes baked in the neighborhood. Several hundred Siamese (Thai) Buddhists converted to Catholicism in the 1770s. Some of the families started baking the cakes. When the Siamese Empire in Ayutthaya was sacked by the Burmese, the Portuguese and Thai Catholics fled to Thonburi, in what is now Bangkok. The Portuguese established a Catholic church near the new Siamese capital. There are still a large number of Thai Catholics living in the neighborhood around the church.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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