Thousands make annual pilgrimage to Tome Hill, Chimayo

Thousands make annual pilgrimage to Tome Hill, Chimayo | KOB.com

Ancient, hidden cemetery discovered

 Not really that ancient, but lots of cool photos.
Ancient, hidden cemetery discovered | Bernalillo, New Mexico | KRQE News 13

Thousands of pilgrims make Good Friday treks

KOB.com - Thousands of pilgrims make Good Friday treks

S. Valley residents remember Dia de los Muertos

KOB.com - S. Valley residents remember Dia de los Muertos

Thoughts on my Roswell Trip

Thoughts on my Roswell Trip | UFO Religions

Pilgrims trek to ‘Lourdes of America’

www.KOB.com - Pilgrims trek to ‘Lourdes of America’

Bent follower talks about death wish

KOB.com - Bent follower talks about death wish

Bent speaks, jury deliberates

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Bent speaks, jury deliberates

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Jurors get sect leader's molestation case

Bent is pretty much saying he will starve himself and die if convicted. How self-deluded is he to think that anyone (other than maybe his followers) would care? Even if he didn't molest those girls, he is a cult leader and the fewer of those the better, imo.

Day of the Dead in Albuquerque

Photo from the Daily Lobo

Larry King -- Wayne Bent

Transcript of cult leader Wayne Bent's son Jeff on Larry King live.
CNN.com - Transcripts

Carnuel

There really aren't many pages about the area I live in, except for real estate related ones. The only page that actually had some history on it was Holy Child Parish. This is what is says -

Although 24 families had settled at Carnuel in 1819 (originally formed as the village of San Miguel de Laredo in 1763), by 1880 there were only 10 families remaining. Apache Indian raids and a lack of water forced most of the population to gravitate to Albuquerque or San Antonio. Two chapels were built in Carnuel in the 1890s. A private chapel was built by Domingo Garcia to house the statue of San Miguel de Laredo, the village’s patron saint. It was torn down in the 1960s. Carnuel’s community church, Santo Niño, was built in 1898 at the west end of Carnuel, on land donated by Roman and Petra Herrera. The original stone church was enlarged with stone and adobe, then in the 1960s it was torn down and a larger church was built. In 1932 Father Libertine erected the large white cross on the hill across the freeway from the church. Father’s idea was to encourage travelers through the canyon to stop and meditate. Prior to construction of the Interstate, a religious procession walked from the church to the cross on the hill. Carnuel celebrates a San Miguel fiesta in September, and on May 3, a Triumph of the Cross fiesta together with the fiesta of Santo Niño.
Carnuel

They forget to mention that the processions were stopped after the interstate was built only after a couple people were hit by cars and killed.

Aggressive Christianity, Part II

I had never heard about any of this before Mike's articles. I guess every state must have a certain amount of cults. :-)
Aggressive Christianity, Part II - My Strange NM - My Strange New Mexico

Jesus on a Tortilla, Lake Arthur, New Mexico

I vaguely remember this story from when I was a child, it was on the news and in the paper. I didn't know it set international standards for miracle sightings though.

I must not believe enough because I totally don't see Jesus or anyone else on this tortilla.

I love that end note -- December 2006: Disaster! In 2005, Mrs. Rubio's grandaughter took the Miracle Tortilla into school for Show and Tell, and it was dropped and broken! The shed shrine has been closed and the remains retired to a drawer in the Rubio's home.

I guess Jesus doesn't like show and tell.

Jesus on a Tortilla, Lake Arthur, New Mexico