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2024 SUMMER EVENTS

JUN 22, 2024
11:00 a.m.

EL Dia de San Juan

Celebration of the

Feast Day of St. John the Baptist


AUG 31, 2024
11:00 a.m.

Passion of

St. John the Baptist

"For where two or three are

gathered together in my name,

there am I in the midst of them."

Mathew 18:20



WOMEN'S RETREAT OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY
Push Back the Darkness 300, Our Lady Queen of Peace,
The Five Stones, Fruits of Medjugorje Pilgrimage

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Feast of The Exaltation of The Holy Cross
To be held at The Secret Garden and Grotto


 
WELCOME TO THE
SAN JUAN CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL CENTER

Walk the same path where courageous Hispano settlers journeyed into Southern Colorado

from New Mexico to live their Catholic faith at the foot of the La Garita Mountains.

The SAN JUAN CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL CENTER is a unique 10-acre site that offers a historical view of cultural traditions and a Catholic way of life brought from old Spain by the first Hispano settlers who traveled to the Spanish northern frontier from New Mexico.

 

As a place of panoramic beauty, it is located in the northern portion of the San Luis Valley, protected by the rugged San Juan Mountain Range to the west and looks across the vast Valley floor towards the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the east.

 

As a visitor, you can trace the path of the Hispano settlers when you see St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Iglesia de San Juan Bautista); as you pause at the site of the ruins of the old convent, now a monument dedicated to San Juan Bautista (Casa de Cura/Convento); as you walk the St. John Paul II Rosary Walk with original buon fresco painting depicting Jesus' life; and as you wander through the rows of graves in the Carnero Creek Cemetery (Cemetario del Carnero).

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CHURCH
St. John the Baptist
Catholic Church
La Iglesia de San Juan Bautista

The original church was built in 1879, burned down in 1924, and rebuilt in 1926.  Construction completed and paid through the efforts of the church's parishioners.

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MONUMENT
San Juan Bautista
Monument
Casa de Cura/Convento

A last remaining wall of a rectory/ convent was preserved as a monument dedicated to

St. John the Baptist and displays a buon fresco painting depicting Jesus' baptism.

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ROSARY WALK
St. John Paul II
Rosary Walk
San Juan Pablo II Paseo del Rosario

Dedicated in 2012 as a place for visitors to experience a spiritual journey through the mysteries of Jesus' life, with Mary, Mother of God, as the intercessor.

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CEMETERY
Carnero Creek
Cemetery
El Camposanto del Carnero

The cemetery has been in use since the church was built

and is still used today for

burials by descendants of the earliest settlers and other

local residents.

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