The Magic of Chimayó
MAGICAL REALISM WAS NOT SIMPLY a literary genre when I spent summers in Chimayó during my youth. It was a lived experience. I’d venture into the hills behind my grandmother’s home, just a stone’s…
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Tag: Religious Sites
Our Lady of Peace
Our Lady of Peace is on view at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, in Santa Fe. WHENEVER HE RECEIVES A NEW PARISH assignment, the Reverend Timothy Martinez searches for his family ties…
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Albuquerque's Guadalupe Chapel Draws the Faithful
Visitors can marvel at the lunar-calendar window crafted by Sister Giotto Moots. Photograph by Kate Nelson. SISTER GIOTTO MOOTS, a nun of the Dominican Order, believed that an alley in Albuquerque’s…
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Healing Waters
FIRST FIND BIBO, north of Laguna Pueblo. From there, NM 279 leads to the small village of Seboyeta. Curve around the old church, Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, and you’ll come upon a dirt road that…
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