{"id":635,"date":"2010-04-09T17:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2010-04-09T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:57:26","slug":"el-santuario-de-chimayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"El Santuario de Chimayo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All!<\/p>\n<p>I am just back from spending a wonderful week with MaParents (aka Mambo Sam and Parran Matt) \ud83d\ude09 During my visit, we took a trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsantuariodechimayo.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Santuario de Chimayo<\/a>.&#0160; I know Mambo Sam has&#0160; mentioned Chimayo during chat class, so perhaps a few of you reading have heard of this beautiful church before. During Easter Week, many people (<em>thousands<\/em> of people) make a pilgrimage to Chimayo and throughout the week I was visiting, people could be seen headed north on foot. The church itself is visually beautiful, and very comfortable and inviting. A small room called <em>el pocito<\/em><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-8\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Santuario_de_Chimayo#cite_note-8\"><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> (the little well) contains a round pit, the source of &quot;holy dirt&quot; (<em>tierra bendita<\/em>) that is believed to have healing powers. (I have a nice baggie full of healing dirt on hand now~!)&#0160; In a room adjacent to the little well, is a prayer room, where there are pictures of people with prayer requests. Also in this room is a large collection of crutches and canes discarded by folks who felt they no longer needed them after visiting! <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Wendy\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.png\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Wendy\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.png\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e54edc5c6888330133ec94bead970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chimayo-exterior-26.1\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e54edc5c6888330133ec94bead970b \" src=\"https:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e54edc5c6888330133ec94bead970b-800wi\" title=\"Chimayo-exterior-26.1\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The trip to Chimayo was just one of the great experiences I had on my trip to NM. I have lots of photos to post and stories to relay \ud83d\ude09 Keep an eye out in the coming weeks!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hope you all had a wonderful Easter! <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Service,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sister Bridget <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> <\/p>\n<p>&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All! I am just back from spending a wonderful week with MaParents (aka Mambo Sam and Parran Matt) \ud83d\ude09 During my visit, we took a trip to El Santuario de Chimayo.&#0160; I know Mambo Sam has&#0160; mentioned Chimayo during chat class, so perhaps a few of you reading have heard of this beautiful church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,342],"tags":[7,6,120,15,444,203,503,420,3,25,143,10,42,4,460],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-spirituality","tag-free-spells","tag-love-spells","tag-magick","tag-mambo-sam","tag-ogoun","tag-reverend-corfield","tag-reverend-kaye","tag-sister-bridget","tag-spellmaker","tag-spellmaker-com","tag-spells","tag-tarot-readings","tag-vodou","tag-voodoo","tag-voodoo-lamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}