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 El Senor Esquipulas-still
hanging around Chimayo by kymbanm
About a hundred years later, (~1810) a local friar was performing penance, and saw a light coming from the hillside. At the sight of the light, he dug a short way down and found a crucifix. Later named, Our Lord of Esquipulas, this crucifix was taken by a priest to another area. Three times the crucifix turned up missing. Three times the crucifix was found back in it's hole in Chimayo. By now, it was determined that El Senor Esquipulas didn't want to leave Chimayo, and a small chapel was built around his favorite spot. He was placed on the altar
Photos are permitted without flash, and as long as you don't disturb the faithful. Leave a Comment Directions: Get to Espanola, follow Hwy 76 about 5 miles to the Sanuario
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 El Posito by kymbanm
Of course, the local native tribes and pueblos have stories of healing from this area that predate the European settlers. The water from stream and the sacred soil are still important to aboriginal healing in the region.
It shouldn't surprise anyone who's visited New Mexico that where France has Lourdes and water .... New Mexico has Chimayo and dirt :) We are known for our dust afterall!
El Posito is in a small anteroom next to the current church and altar. You wait for room to enter and collect some dirt for yourself, rub it on yourself, or just stare ... your choice actually. Leave a Comment Directions: From Espanola take Hwy 76 5 miles to the Santuario de Chimayo and follow the other people there to the chapel and El Posito.
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Just outside the chapel and El Posito are remnants of old lives .... crutches, canes, braces and more are on display in gratitude for the miracle cures received by their past owners. Known as the Lourdes of North America pilgrims come from all over - especially at Easter. The Easter pilgrims arrive by foot ... walking from Taos (40 miles), Santa Fe (24 miles) and other part of of the region. The walk itself is seen as a devotion to El Senor Esquipulas .. in anticipation, or in gratitude for previous miracles.
Chimayo estimates 300,000 visitors a year ..... 30,000 of them for Easter alone. It's a bit of a zoo then, but a worthy journey. Leave a Comment Directions: From Espanola, take Hwy 76 5 miles to the Santuario.
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See map at http://dgrims2.unm.edu/website/EspCr06/viewer.htm
Each of the red dots on the highway between Espanola and the village of Chimayo represents 4 to 65 vehicle collisions - a third of which were DWI 'accidents'. The newly released crash map (created by the nonprofit DWI Resource Center, the state Transportation Department and law enforcement agencies) also shows that Saturdays between 6 and 7 p.m. and between 10 and 11 p.m. Fridays are prime for crashes, also that a high number of alcohol-related crashes happen from 2 to 3 a.m. Wednesdays.
See also http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/53541.html
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http://www.santafenewmexican.com/video/
Holy Land by Natalie Guillen
Santa Fe New Mexican
See also
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Chimayo+&hl=en&sitesearch
(31 Chimayo related videos as of April 2008)
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 The often photographed
Santuario de Chimayo by lareinaLeave a Comment
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 Plaza Del Cerro, Chimayó by VinceRamos
Don J. Usner, Sabino’s Map: Life in Chimayós Old Plaza. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995
The Plaza del Cerró was the center of the Spanish Colonial settlement established in Chimayó in 1740 and is enclosed by contiguous adobe buildings. Its three entrances are only wide enough to admit people on foot and animals, which made it easy to defend. It remains as one of the only surviving examples of fortified plazas in New Mexico. See photographs at http://www.foodmuseum.com/fhsitesfeaturesPlazadelCerro.html<br />
"Throughout the eighteenth century, persons convicted of crimes of violence were exiled to Chimayo for fixed periods of time; Chimayo being considered the eastern boundary or frontier of the Spanish settlements in the Rio Grande Valley proper" ..and also because it served the Spanish settlers in Santa Fe as a bulwark against raids made by Apaches, Utes, Comanches and Navajos.
HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY, PLAZA DEL CERRO (Plaza de San Buenaventura) [in Chimayo] http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/nm/nm0000/nm0035/data/nm0035.pdf
See also Chimayó Rebellion of 1837 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_1837_(New_Mexico)
Map at http://www.bizwiki.com/node/10486841/print Leave a Comment Address: Chimayó, New MexicoPhone: (505) 351-0945Directions: From the Ortega's weaving shop located at the intersection of State Highway 76 and Santa Fe County road 98 drive or walk down the road in front of the shop, then turn to the right at the first available road, which will take you into the plaza.Website: http://www.chimayomuseum.org/
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