San Isidro Church - Agua Fria, NM
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saopaulo1
N 35° 39.502 W 106° 00.862
13S E 408183 N 3946531
San Isidro Church is featured in the New Mexico: The Colorful State book.
Waymark Code: WMHYD4
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 08/26/2013
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"39. AGUA FRIA CHURCH, 5 m. from the Plaza of Santa Fe on
the Agua Fria Road, was the center of the old village of Agua Fria.
The church is still used by the people of the district, who celebrate their fiesta on June 24th. The Feast of San Isidro, their patron saint, is celebrated on May 15, and San Pedros Day on June 29. The place is gay, too, at Christmas time, when the church is garlanded with paper flowers and festooned with red Christmas bells. Small bonfires burn all about on Christmas Eve, just as they do in the city only five miles away but it seems far more remote than that. The old wood carver, Celso Gallegos, has his house here. He has earned a small portion of fame for his saints and figures fashioned from knots of pine and juniper. Spreading cottonwoods line the ditches, now too often dry."
The church hasn't changed much, though it's not as festive as it was in the 1940s. This church has a small graveyard next to it, and it has a nice New Mexico architecture.
Book: New Mexico
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 209
Year Originally Published: 1940
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