Front:
Built Originally as Nuestra Senora de Socorro
by Friar A. Benavides in 1626.
OLD SAN MIGUEL MISSION, SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
Gretings
ONE OF
THE OLDEST CHURCHES
ON THE
NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT
AND THE SECOND OLDEST
MISSION IN NEW MEXICO
(Nuestra Senora de Socorro)
Back:
Bessie & arrow January 1953
SR-1
THE OLD MISSION at SOCORRO, N. M.
has much historic legend and tradition from the offer of one mil-
lion dollars reward for the return of the solid silver Communion
rail of the original church built in 1626 - and thought to have
been buried during the Indian Rebellion of 1680. And, in addition
to being a religious edifice, all deeds to land in Socorro read:
"Del centro de la iglesia". (from the center of the church).
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ALFRED MC GARR ADV. SERVICE., P. O. BOX 646, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.
82858
C. E. REDMAN PHOTO, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.
