While photographing the Santuario pilgrimage, I watched as they walked in snow flurries, in the wind and cold but it did not stop them on their trek to Chimayo, so this page is dedicated to them.
During Holy Week thousands of pilgrims journey to El Santuario de Chimayó, a tiny shrine in northern New Mexico. They leave from their homes, or their cars parked on the roadside, to walk 10, 20, 30, or even 100 miles to reach Chimayo. In the darkness before Good Friday, pilgrims line the highways north of Santa Fe carrying crosses and glow sticks. By Easter Sunday tens of thousands of worshipers pass through the doors of the little chapel, built almost 200 years ago on a site that is sacred to many Pueblo Indians and descendants of Spanish settlers. Many do the journey to full fill a promise, some in hope of a miracle, others in penance of their sins, what ever the reason is, you can not help feeling the presence of faith.
Click on http://evangelineartphotography.wordpress.com/photo-events/chimayo-easter-pilgrimage/ to see Chimayo images.
If you see an image that you would like to have, email me at edcdesign@msn.com, and I will email it to you.
Colorado River, Grand Canyon
Evangeline Chavez
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, and the Havasupai Tribe.
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet / 1,800 metres).The Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon (“Ongtupqa” in Hopi language) a holy site and made pilgrimages to it.The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540
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