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(29 Apr 2023)
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Ledoux, New Mexico - 15 April 2023
1.Fidel Trujillo ringing bells in San José church
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Chimayó, New Mexico - 16 April 2023
2. Various of Cornerstones program director, Jake Barrow, making adobe bricks
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jake Barrow, Cornerstones program director:
"So we're in the process of reconstructing an building here that was built originally in 1780, and it's coming back to life this year. And so we're getting ready tomorrow to have volunteers make adobe bricks."
4. Barrow making a brick
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jake Barrow, Cornerstones program director:
"This dirt all came out of that building. Everything had collapsed in there. So we brought all the dirt out here, including the old adobes. And so we're going to reconstitute it, put it back together."
6. Various of Cornerstones program director, Jake Barrow, making adobe bricks
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Las Trampas, New Mexico - 14 April 2023
7. Outside of San José de Gracia church
ANNOTATION: Today, these uniquely New Mexican adobe churches are being threatened by depopulation, dwindling congregations and fading traditions.
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Cordova, New Mexico - 14 April 2023
8. Cross at an alter inside of St. Anthony church
9. A church caretaker, or Mayordomo, Angelo Sandoval talking inside St. Anthony Church
ANNOTATION: But descendants of church caretakers called "mayordomos" are fighting to save these historic structures from crumbling back to the earth.
10. An altar in St. Anthony Church
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Las Trampas, New Mexico - 14 April 2023
11. Exterior of San José de Gracia church
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Monte Aplanado, New Mexico - 15 April 2023
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Leo Paul Pacheco, mayordomo:
"The Adobe consists of sand, dirt and straw and water."
13. Fidel Trujillo outside of Santo Niño de Atocha church
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Leo Paul Pacheco, mayordomo:
"We use the dirt from here and from there we just went with our mixture. It was trial and error, pretty much."
15. Fidel Trujillo outside of Santo Niño de Atocha church
ANNOTATION: About 500 Catholic mission churches remain in northern New Mexico. It will be up to future generations to use their faith to save them.
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Las Trampas, New Mexico - 14 April 2023
16. Exterior of San José de Gracia church
STORYLINE:
400 years ago missionaries started building churches out of mud in tiny mountain communities in New Mexico. And because they were thousands of miles from religious and lay seats of power villagers instituted lay church caretakers called “mayordomos,” and filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap.
Today, these uniquely New Mexican adobe churches are being threatened by depopulation, dwindling congregations and fading traditions.
"So we're in the process of reconstructing a building here that was built originally in 1780, and it's coming back to life this year," said Jack Barrow, a program director at Cornerstones, a nonprofit that works with communities to restore historic adobe, stone and log buildings. "And so we're getting ready tomorrow to have volunteers make adobe bricks."
The descendants of the "mayordomos," or church caretakers, are at the front of the fight to save these historic structures from crumbling back to the earth.
The archdiocese’s Catholic Foundation provides small grants, and several organizations have been founded to help conservation efforts.
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