What to see in America . ain havewitnessed inside and out such cruelty and horror, treacheryand suffering, valor and chivalry, as the big low adobepalace which fronts the historic plaza. In one of its roomsLew Wallace, when governor of New Mexico, wrote a partof his famous novel, Ben Hur. It contains a museum ofold Spanish paintings and historical relics. Only one year less ancient is San Miguel Church, believedto be the nations oldest religious edifice, and known as the Cradle of Christianity in America. It is still used forpublic worship. The original adobe walls were madeextremely thick, wh
What to see in America . ain havewitnessed inside and out such cruelty and horror, treacheryand suffering, valor and chivalry, as the big low adobepalace which fronts the historic plaza. In one of its roomsLew Wallace, when governor of New Mexico, wrote a partof his famous novel, Ben Hur. It contains a museum ofold Spanish paintings and historical relics. Only one year less ancient is San Miguel Church, believedto be the nations oldest religious edifice, and known as the Cradle of Christianity in America. It is still used forpublic worship. The original adobe walls were madeextremely thick, which accounts for their survival in spiteof what the building has had to endure from mankind andweather. In the Pueblo Revolution the Indians tore downthe ornaments of the church and burned them, and they used the build-ing for their an-* J^1^§ ^^^^^I^^^^H ^^^^^ worship off ^i >^^^^^^^|^^H sn^hes and stone images. The res-toration of thedamaged struc-ture was com- Sanctuario, the Loukdes of ]\ew Mexico pleted in
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