Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Chavez, Fray Angelico

My Penitente Land: Reflections on Spanish New Mexico Print Fray Angelico Chavez - Albuquerque, NM University of New Mexico Press 1974 - 272 p. Hardback book.

Part one: Holy Land
Cross over Jordan ; Lands of Genesis ; Broad is Castile ; Same as Jerusalem's ; Into the Promised Land ; The Miserable Kingdom
Part two: The Nazirite
Blood and sand ; The Consecrated Ones ; Way of the Cross ; Flagellanti versus Francis ; The Cross and the Book
Part three: Anima Hispanica
Semitic Spain ; Conquistador and Penitente ; A new world Babel ; The Lost Tribe ; Return from Babylon
Part four: Sangre de Cristo
Secular interlude ; The Mexican interlude ; Stars and stripes ; The Spanish New Mexican

A history of the Penitentes, a religious order unique to New Mexico. Using poetic language, Father Chavez traces the Petitente's spiritual lineage back to Spain and Israel.

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Chavez, Angelico 1910-1996


Hermanos Penitentes


Religion--New Mexico

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