Prayer Pilgrimage for Peace: Reimagining el Santuario de Chimayó
For generations, devotees have gathered at the place today known as el Santuario de Chimayó, a shrine in New Mexico, for healing, renewal, and connection to the divine. In 1983, pilgrim activists began a new pilgrimage tradition—one that centered on carrying the famous healing dirt from the Santuari...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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US catholic historian
Year: 2025, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 99-123 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | For generations, devotees have gathered at the place today known as el Santuario de Chimayó, a shrine in New Mexico, for healing, renewal, and connection to the divine. In 1983, pilgrim activists began a new pilgrimage tradition—one that centered on carrying the famous healing dirt from the Santuario de Chimayó to Los Alamos, a site associated with the U.S. nuclear weapons program since 1943. This pro-peace, antinuclear Prayer Pilgrimage for Peace emerged during the late-twentieth-century Santuario pilgrimage movement. It aligned with Pax Christi actions across the U.S., sought to address communal and environmental harms, and represented a new kind of Santuario pilgrimage, one sustained by interethnic and interfaith coalition-building. |
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| ISSN: | 1947-8224 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: US catholic historian
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cht.2025.a960202 |
