Article: Holy Week focus: Film highlights spirituality of Valley communities' lives.

Byline: Marvin Read

Apr. 1--The religious piety and fervor that characterized Spain for centuries is alive and well - perhaps nowhere as much as in Colorado's San Luis Valley.

It draws from the sense of faith that came to the New World with the Franciscan and other missionaries in the 16th century. The spirit was refined and reshaped by the Indio-American cultures of Mexico and the Southwestern United States, and the living and display of that faith takes on an even deeper and richer character in the current Lenten season and climaxes during Holy Week.

San Luis Valley native Rick Vigil has captured and recorded some of that faith in a 24-minute ...

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