On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, at 11:24 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > This Catholic chapel, the Santuario de Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas, > commonly known as El Santuario de Chimayó, has a reputation as a healing > site. Believers claim that dirt from a back room of the church can heal > physical and spiritual ills. It is known as the "Lourdes of America," > and > attracts close to 300,000 visitors a year, including up to 30,000 during > Holy Week. It has been called "no doubt the most important Catholic > pilgrimage center in the United States." > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18309817&size=lg > Comments are invited.
Very nice - you got a much better vantage point than I managed. The story we got was that the priests had to regularly replenish the dirt because pilgrims kept carrying it off. Can't possibly be true.... :-)> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
