GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-13
El Santuario de Chimayó
10 State Road 76
Chimayó, NM 87522
Phone: 505-351-4360
History: El Santuario de Chimayó, Chimayó, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, has been a shrine in he Archdiocese of Santa Fe (Archives: Santa Fe, New Mexico).
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1816 |
A local Catholic layman built the Santuario de Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas as a devotional site for the local community, which is of mixed Native (e.g. Genízaro, Mestizos) and non-Native American ancestry |
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1929 |
Preservationists conveyed ownership to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe |
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1970 |
El Santuario was designated a National Historical Landmark, which attracts over 30,000 visitors per year |
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1981, 1996, 2010 |
Visitors have included Native American attendees of the national Tekakwitha Conference for Native American Catholics when hosted in Albuquerque in July or August by local Native American Catholics of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: Unknown.
Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.
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