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Shrines and Holy Places
New Mexico

St. Joseph's Mission
Laguna Pueblo, Route 66
Laguna, NM. 87026

The Laguna Mission of San José was established in 1699. It is the last mission built in the early mission period and, is the best preserved.
The first permanent Spanish settlement was in 1598. About Indian pueblos (towns or mini-nations) are scattered about New Mexico today.
http://newmexico.org/native_america/pueblos/laguna.php

Shrine & Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe
P.O. Box 296
Mesilla Park, NM. 88047

In 1581 Franciscan missionaries traveled the Camino Real through the Las Cruces Diocese, on their way to northern New Mexico, the country around them was only sparsely inhabited by semi-nomadic Indians of fragmented tribes. From 1659, the mission church of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe at Paso del North (the Juarez of today) was the point through which most of the missionary efforts and colonizing expeditions passed.
The Sacraments of Baptism, Marriage and Burial were administered from Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe at El Paso to the early settlers of Doña Ana, Mesilla and Las Cruces by circuit-riding priests from the mission.
In 1850, all of New Mexico came under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Sante Fe. By 1852 there were churches at Doña Ana, Mesilla and Las Cruces. But Mesilla was the first to have a resident priest.

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Saint Francis Cathedral
131 Cathedral Place P.O. Box 2127
Santa Fe, NM 87504-2127
Phone: (505) 982-5619
http://www.cbsfa.org/
The mother church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
This magnificent Romanesque cathedral is a rare departure from Santa Fe's Pueblo architecture. Construction was begun in 1869 by Santa Fe's first archbishop, Jean Baptiste working with French architects and Italian stonemasons. The church has had a number of additions and renovations. It is now a Neo-Romanesque church with two side aisles, round arches, a great rose window. It has two eighty-five-foot towers which were to be topped with 160-foot steeples but funding ran out and the spires were never finished.
The Cathedral was elevated to a Basilica by Pope Benedict XVI on October 4, 2005.
Nuestra Senora de la Conquistadora Chapel
The first church on this site was a small adobe structure built in 1610. This was replaced in 1639 but destroyed by the Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680. It was rebuilt in 1714 and named in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Patron Saint of Santa Fe. The existing Cathedral was built around this church. A small adobe chapel, the Conquistadora chapel, that was part of this church was kept and restored. It holds a statue of the Virgin Mary that was brought from Spain in 1625. It is believed to be the oldest representation of the Virgin Mary in the United States. cbsfa.org

Mission History:
The Old Missions of New Mexico - Still Alive After Four Centuries
Saint Anthony Messenger
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