This unusual book, Fray Ang駘ico Ch疱ez’s personal meditation on his cultural heritage, is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. The spirit of New Mexico, he feels, grows out of its dry mountain terrain whose hills and valleys resemble those of Spain and of ancient Palestine. Just as this kind of landscape helped the Hebrew shepherd Abraham to find his God, so in Fray Ang駘ico’s view, have New Mexico’s mountains kept her people close to their God. In evoking this special closeness between the divine and the human, the author returns repeatedly to the Penitentes of New Mexico-the societies of men who scourge themselves and replay the Crucifixion each Holy Week to share the sufferings of their Savior. Some of his ideas will spark controversy over the meaning of New Mexico’s past, but Fray Ang駘ico Ch疱ez’s viewpoint, representing that of many native Spanish Americans, deserves the attention of every reader with an interest in the state’s Hispanic heritage. No one can read this book without gaining a new understanding of the world of the New Mexican Hispano imbedded in the dry, hilly landscape of the majestic Sangre de Cristo mountains.
Author: Angelico Chavez, Fray Angelico Chavez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 05/15/2012
Series: Southwest Heritage
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780865348714
Language: English
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