Word: morada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...
...Penitentes no longer use nails because too many Cristos have died that way. For 45 minutes the Cristo hangs on the cross while around him his brothers chant, wail, scourge themselves with whips and cactus. Then the victim is cut down, carried back to the morada where awaits an enfermero with brews and unguents...
...villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted building, the Morada, headquarters of the Penitentes. "Nowadays one may see only the whipping of bare and lacerated backs and the crucifixion of an image but what goes on in the night and in the secret chamber of the Morada none but the Penitent Brothers know." A Mexican told Fergusson that the Penitentes...
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