Maria Sandoval leans on a handmade cross bearing the names of loved ones passed as she waits in line to visit El Santuario De Chimayo in Northern New Mexico on Good Friday, April 18, 2025.

CHIMAYÓ, N.M. (AP) — A unique Holy Week tradition drew thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico, in a journey on foot through desert badlands ...

Victoria Trujillo of Albuquerque walks with her crucifix along Juan De Medina Rd on her way to the El Santuario De Chimayo in Northern New Mexico on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. This was Mrs ...