San Antonio de Padua Catholic Church

The panel's painting came to this village by a promise. Before the last Pecos families left for Jemez in 1838, they gave their mission's Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, painted in Mexico City by Juan Correa around 1700, to their Hispano neighbors here, asking only that her feast be kept. The village kept it until 1953 and took it up again in 1969: an August procession from this church to the roofless mission in the national park, joined since 1970 by Jemez people of Pecos descent. The stone church went up in 1906.

What the plaque says

San Antonio de Padua Catholic Church This is one of the finest surviving examples of Bishop Lamy's French- inspired gothic architecture in New Mexico. Completed in 1906, it is constructed of locally quarried stone instead of traditional adobe. Among its adornments is a painting of Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles (Our Lady of the Angels), given to the nearby Pueblo of Pecos By the King of Spain in the early eighteenth century.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pecos National Historical Park — 2.4 mi
  The red walls of a 1717 mission church inside the foundations of a far larger one, beside the kiva Pecos people dug in front of the old church during the revolt of 1680.
• Palace of the Governors — 16 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.
• Montezuma Castle — 23 mi
  The railroad's turreted resort at the Las Vegas hot springs, burned twice in its first years, empty for most of a century, and now home to an international school.

More markers nearby

• Pecos National Historical Park — 1.6 mi
• Hogbacks — 24 mi
• Villanueva State Park — 29 mi
• Strike Valleys — 29 mi