Pilgrimage to Chimayó Contemporary Portrait of a Living Tradition: Contemporary Portrait of a Living Tradition

by Sam Howarth and Enrique R. Lamadrid

This book documents in black-and-white photos the most popular religious and spiritual pilgrimage in the United States--the annual Easter week walk to the Santuario de Chimay in northern New Mexico.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890133743
• ISBN13: 9780890133743
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Documentation of a Tradition

This is an impressive documentation of the annual Holy week pilgrimage to the santuario in the village of Chimayo in the foothills of the Sangre de Christo Mountains in northern New Mexico. The text provides illuminating insights into the history and tradition, both Indian nd Hispanic, of the shrine and the pilgrimage. The photographs, excellently reproduced, present a sensitive, inspired and inspirational, documentation of the people, the place and the journey. There are hikers nad bikers, children, old people, campfires, men bearing crosses, and on the back cover an image that points up the interface between modern life and ancient tradition. It shows a large, illuminated highway department sign that says: "PILGRAMS (sic) EXIT TO FRONTAGE." Quotations, some in Spanish, some in English, illustrate the variety of stories and motivations behind these journeys. This is a magnificent chronicle of an important piece of New Mexico tradition.