Pilgrimage to Chimayó: Contemporary Portrait of a Living Tradition

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999. First ed., first printing (full number line). Oblong 12mo with black and white pictorial self-wraps; 77 pages: illustrations, map; 16 x 21 cm Near fine; clean and tight with mild edgewear. Paperback. ISBN: 0890133743

"During Holy Week tens of thousands of pilgrims make the annual journey to Chimayo, New Mexico, and to its famous sacred site, the Santuario de Chimayo. Chimayo is one of the spiritual centers of the region and the destination of the most popular religious pilgrimage in North America. The roads to Chimayo course through mountain villages, where Hispanic Catholicism has been cradled for more than two centuries, but Chimayo, as well, is a special place for all who quest to find divinity and encounter the sacred within ourselves. Documentary photographers Miguel Gandert, Cary Herz, Sam Howarth and Oscar Lozoya and oral historians Enrique R. Lamadrid and Troy Fernandez create a portrait in images and testimony of New Mexico's living tradition." --Jacket copy. Contents: Preface / Sam Howarth. The road to Chimayó / Enrique R. Lamadrid. Santa Madre Tierra. the Holy Mother Earth of Chimayó / Enrique R. Lamadrid. Language Notes: English and Spanish.