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| A glorious glow bathes San Francisco de Asis in Ranchos de Taos, a scant four miles from where I write these words. |
In northern New Mexico referred to locally as El Norte we’re surrounded by reminders of the Franciscan Catholics who arrived in the late 16th century, conquered the Pueblo Indians and built adobe churches throughout this part of the world. Miraculously the Church did the same throughout the Americas at the same time. Within a century they built churches from South America to Central America, the Caribbean and what is now the United States of America. They got as far north as Taos. The mind boggles at what the Church accomplished under the Banner of Heaven. How they did it is another story.
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| 20 miles south on the High Road to Taos is the rectory of the Spanish Mission Church in Truchas, NM. |
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| On a hard to find back road lies the picture perfect church in Cundiyo, New Mexico. |
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| And finally the Sangre de Cristo Chapel in the barely there village of Cuartalez. The chapel is a clapboard anomaly in the adobe world that is El Norte. |
In Taos, our home, we’re half a mile away from the northern most Grand Hacienda in New Mexico and four miles from the most famous Franciscan church in New Mexico, San Francisco de Asis in Ranchos de Taos. On the High Road that begins and ends in Ranchos are mission churches in the smallest villages where faith prevails, and time seems to have stood still. In my portfolio Divine Light are many examples of timeless Pueblo style architecture. Here are three adobes and the clapboard jewel in Cuartalez.
This is a truncated effort while I contemplate how to create a post that celebrates 1,000 over the last 19 years. I have a couple of weeks to figure out how to pull that off. That's 4,000 or more pages, even more photographs and eclectic content ranging from few photographs and descriptive text to full on magazine articles that publish every Monday. It's been a wild ride but is one I'll take till I can't ride the beast.
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The glow of San Francisco de Asis and the clouds/sky in the rectory of the Spanish mission in Truchas are divine light indeed! Happy to have all of the images on this Memorial Day! Thanks, Steve!
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