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Santa Fe Churches

A spiral staircase in a chapel, surrounded by stained glass windows and archways, evokes the same awe as witnessing miracles.
21
Sep

Do You Believe in Miracles? Loretto’s Miracle Staircase

Santa Fe’s Loretto Chapel is an exquisite Gothic-style structure, the oldest in the West. It features a beautiful altar and acoustics that make a concert here a real treat. It is a perfectly scaled down version of the famous Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, famous for its incredible stained glass windows. But most notable is its amazing...
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America's oldest church, with a fascinating history, stands as an adobe structure featuring a wooden door and a cross on top. Under the clear blue sky, the shadows of trees dance gently upon its weathered walls.
05
Sep

Fact or Fiction? America’s “Oldest” Church

Santa Fe’s historic San Miguel Chapel is undeniably old. Age oozes from its thick earthen walls, the paintings on curling buffalo and deer hides, its dark, musty viga ceiling. If the bultos on the altar could talk, what tales they’d tell. Of workers sealing floors with ox blood to harden them, the day Pueblo warriors...
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