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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Morgan Lee

Thousands of pilgrims trek through New Mexico desert to historic adobe church for Good Friday

Good Friday-New Mexico Church - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A unique Holy Week tradition is drawing 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.

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