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Article: A GOLD MEDALLION OF POPE PIUS IX DISCOVERED AT ARROYO SECO CHURCH.(Vecinos/People)
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- Taos News (Taos, NM)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2009
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Byline: LARRY TORRES
Part 2
By Larry Torres
For The Taos News
One September afternoon in 1997, Joe T. Martinez was helping to clear away some rotted boards from the sanctuary of the old church of La Santisima Trinidad.
Along with volunteers from the Ameri-Corps and the New Mexico Community Foundation, he was there to spirit away debris before the rebuilding process began.
As he budged the square column away from the right side of the sanctuary he felt a metallic object buried just below the mud surface. He picked up the flat, baseball-sized object and brushed away the dirt from its surface.