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April 22nd, 2011
12:01 AM ET
'Holy dirt' in the hills of New MexicoBy William Walker, CNN Chimayo, New Mexico (CNN) - El Santuario de Chimayo, the Roman Catholic adobe mission church set in these hills of northern New Mexico, dates from 1816. Here, on Good Friday night around 1810, a Chimayo friar reportedly found a miraculous crucifix glowing on the ground near the Santa Cruz River. The church is built on the site of the reported discovery. During Holy Week - culminating on Good Friday - thousands of pilgrims converge on Chimayo. Some pilgrims walk a few yards, others a hundred miles or more. Many pilgrims believe that sacred earth from the shrine possesses miraculous healing powers. Testimonies of healing powers at Chimayo date to 1813, when Father Sebastian Alvarez wrote of cures for ailments. Visitors to Chimayo often take "holy dirt" from a pit in the shrine where the crucifix was reportedly found. Some rub it on their skin, others eat it; many claim to have been cured of disease, illness and infirmity. For more information, visit the El Santuario de Chimayo and the Archdiocese of Santa Fe websites.
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If you cannot make a pilgrimage to Chimayo to get your own dirt, I know of two places you can order a nice supply shipped to you anywhere in the world.
1. ebay.com – search for "miracle dirt"
1. http://www.chimayomiracledirt.com
So, Adelina, you believe this "holy dirt" story? I actually visited this church last summer. You should try getting out of your trailer once in a while.
Adelina, let me guess..you talk to a god and they talk to you. LOL
@Artist: God is One. If you don't understand the concept of the Holy Trinity, it's your problem.
The only "holy" ground on this globe is that containing the decomposing bones of Jesus somewhere outside of Jerusalem assuming they were not eaten by wild dogs or vultures.
What's so special about those bones?
Jesus is risen from the dead. His tomb is empty. Villains will be sorry for their evil blasphemies for eternity.
Or, you could live your life without the fear of HEII FIRE AND DAMNATION!!! In the end we are all worm food.
John,
Great question. Said bones would put the final nail in the Christian coffin currently filled with myth and embellishment and it would put the period behind Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 15 "If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith."
@Jim, that's only non-believers. Jesus promised to save you if you repent and trust Him. @Reality, Corinthians 15 concludes, "But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead." Atheists' quotations must never be trusted as they are half-truth and maliciously deceptive.
Hmmm, tis holy Saturday. Tis not this the day, the simple, preacher man spent in Hell?
Time for an update:
The Apostles' Creed 2011: (updated by yours truly and based on the studies of historians and theologians during the past 200 years)
I might believe in a god whose existence cannot be proven
and said god if he/she/it exists resides in an unproven,
human-created, spirit state of bliss called heaven.
I believe there was a 1st century CE, Jewish, simple,
preacher-man who was conceived by a Jewish carpenter
named Joseph living in Nazareth and born of a young Jewish
girl named Mary. (Some say he was a mamzer.)
Jesus was summarily crucified for being a temple rabble-rouser by
the Roman troops in Jerusalem serving under Pontius Pilate,
He was buried in an unmarked grave and still lies
a-mouldering in the ground somewhere outside of
Jerusalem.
Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by
many semi-fiction writers. A descent into Hell, a bodily resurrection
and ascension stories were promulgated to compete with the
Caesar myths. Said stories were so popular that they
grew into a religion known today as Catholicism/Christianity
and featuring dark-age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals
called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus.
Amen
"a Chimayo friar reportedly found a miraculous crucifix glowing on the ground"
I think that what he found was a mess of payote and was tripping.
P T Barnum was right!
I laugh when I think about all those thousands of cubic yards of dirt being "replenished" by the priests when they think no one is looking.
If they had not replaced what is taken, the whole area would be a pit.
Ironic, that.
To think fertilizer is holy is just an inside joke for the priests as they ra-pe your children and tell you how to live your life.
Fist, most Catholic priests are innocent. Children get ra ped because men are evil, and the West doesn't have virgin women for marriage.
America's s e x ual revolution made both men and women the worst kind of traitors and perverts everywhere.
I think Adelina was made, not born, a fool.
Being hit in the head that many times that hard is bound to cause brain damage, anyway.
She has little else to do. Her injuries, stunted growth, and lack of proper education virtually guarantee that she would turn out this way.
Catholics really need to read the Bible...
Catholics gave you the Bible...
But the majority of them don't read it regularly. They should.
Everybody needs to burn their Bibles, Torahs, Qurans, and other "holy" texts.
Let's put your gods to the test!
If we destroy them all maybe your gods will finally produce something real.
Maybe that's why they never do anything. They're jealous of the lies written by humans or maybe they were just waiting for something like that.
But if it will never happen, then we will always be without something made by an actual "god". You can't say it's impossible, can you? LOL
What a bunch of maroons! Your beliefs can't even hold up under the simplest of tests! Contradictions everywhere are proof of lies.
Lies are lies. Period. If you worship lies, you and I are going to have problems.