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Thousands of pilgrims trek through New Mexico desert to historic adobe church for Good Friday
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Maria Sandoval leans on a handmade cross bearing the names of loved ones passed as she waits in line to visit El Santuario De Chimayo in Northern New Mexico on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. Chimayo, N.M. - photo by AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales
CHIMAYÓ, N.M. (AP) — A unique Holy Week tradition drew thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico, in a journey on foot through desert badlands to reach a spiritual wellspring. For generations, people of the Upper Rio Grande Valley and beyond have walked to reach El Santuario de Chimayó to commemorate Good Friday. Pilgrims began arriving at dawn.