8/2/2023 0 Comments Spress in spanishThe 'mayordomos' or caretakers of San Lorenzo – both the historic sanctuary of St. Rosales/AP Show More Show Less 6 of8 An exterior view of El Santuario de San Lorenzo in Bernalillo, New Mexico, Monday, April 17, 2023. Preserved mostly in devotions, particularly in humble 'moradas' – as the brotherhoods' chapels are called – built of mud and straw in rural communities across the northern reaches of the state, New Mexican Spanish is different from all other varieties of the language. Rosales/AP Show More Show Less 5 of8 Silk flowers in vases adorn a windowsill of the San Antonio Church in Cordova, New Mexico, Friday, April 14, 2023. We're the last generation that learned it as first language," said Sandoval, 45. Giovanna Dell'Orto/AP Show More Show Less 4 of8 Angelo Sandoval, 'mayordormo' or caretaker of the 1830s San Antonio Church, stands on a dirt road in Cordova, New Mexico, Friday, April 14, 2023. "You never heard English here," said Lopez of growing up in the 1950s in Truchas, a ridgetop village between Santa Fe and Taos. Giovanna Dell'Orto/AP Show More Show Less 3 of8 Master santero Felix Lopez – an artist trained in New Mexico's centuries-old tradition of religious sculpture and painting – speaks during an interview while standing in front of the 1810s 'reredo' or altarpiece he cleaned and preserved in the Holy Rosary Mission Church in Truchas, New Mexico, Sunday, April 16, 2023. Members of the brotherhood transmit their traditional devotions in New Mexican Spanish from generation to generation both verbally and through the notebooks, helping the unique dialect survive even as fewer people speak it. Giovanna Dell'Orto/AP Show More Show Less 2 of8 Handbooks of prayers and hymns, known as 'cuadernos', sit in a niche in the adobe wall of the morada de San Isidro, outside Holman, New Mexico, Saturday, April 15, 2023. New Mexican Spanish is as central to these communities' identity as their iconic adobe churches, and its best chance of survival might be through faith, too. 1 of8 'Hermanos' Fidel Trujillo, left, and Leo Paul Pacheco, look at the kitchen recently built with adobe next to the 1860s 'morada' de San Isidro, which is the main chapel and meeting point of their Catholic brotherhood, outside Holman, New Mexico, Saturday, April 15, 2023.
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