During Holy Week, thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chimayó, a church that dates from 1816 and is revered as a place of healing. Many people walk from Santa Fe, 28 miles away, and some even from Albuquerque, 90 miles away. We walked thirteen miles from Pojoaque.Inside the santuario is a room which contains el pocito (the little well). El pocito contains la tierra bendita (the holy dirt) which has curative powers. This room also contains poems, crutches, baby shoes, and other things left behind by those who claim to have been cured.
Heading home, our tired feet got a ride in the back of some benevolent stranger's pickup.
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