

My Pilgrimage to Santuario de Chimayo
When I was doing research for our New Mexico vacation this past summer, I discovered Chimayo, a small, rural town 25 miles north of Sante Fe within the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Chimayo is famous for a Catholic chapel most commonly known as El Santuario de Chimayo. It was built in 1816 by Bernardo Abeyta, a man deeply devoted to Christ of Esquipulas, (a pilgrimage site in Guatemala where the clay was said to have healing powers) so the local people could worship Jesus as de