Religion among Hispanics | Alamosa/Southern San Luis Valley

Members of Sangre de Cristo Parish in San Luis (Costilla County) walk in a Good Friday pilgrimage from San Francisco to San Luis with Father Pat Valdez "Father Pat" (second from left), 2005. A woman crucifer carries a processional cross at the head of the procession.

Members of the Hermanos Penitentes near a wood stove in their adobe morada in Costilla County, 2005

Members of the Hermanos Penitentes walk along a dirt trail during the Stations of the Cross observance on Good Friday in Costilla County, 2005

Father Benito Hernandez preaches from a lectern in the Catholic Sangre de Cristo Church in San Luis, 2005

Religious procession in Los Sauces, CO, with men carrying statue of a saint and other carved images, undated photo

Photos mounted on decorative metal tray show Most Precious Blood Catholic Church and Father José Samuel García, San Luis (Costilla County), 1890s

The Catholic Capilla de Todos Los Santos, a part of the Shrine of the Stations of the Cross (La Mesa de la Piedad y de la Misericordia, Hill of Piety and Mercy) in San Luis, built in 1986

Moises Vialpondo and an elderly man stand at the grave of Maria Ursulita Vialpondo in the cemetery in Chama, 1950