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El Santuario de Chimayo: New Mexico's Lourdes.

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| December 22, 2002 | Wright, John B. | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Geographical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Sacred Places

Sacred sites are not selected, we comply. The act of consecrating a place is an acknowledgment of something immensely holy and obvious to those involved. Rationales may be summoned, facts assembled and anointed, but this is all a mere formality to support what is plainly and thoroughly felt.

The sacred is not rational, but facts are not the truth.

To many, all of Nature is holy. But in our daily lives we experience that feeling locally - in a certain cultural landscape that has become our home. Certain rare places take on extraordinary spiritual power, as if a small crack in the earth's secular crust opens to reveal the divine. ...

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