Penitentes (New Mexico)

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Penitentes

Pentitetes "crucifying" one of their own in a ritual in an undisclosed New Mexico location, 1888
Regions with significant populations
Northern and Central New Mexico and southern Colorado
Religions
Catholic

Los Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (Spanish: 'The Brothers of the Pious Fraternity of Our Father Jesus the Nazarene'), also known as Los Penitentes, Los Hermanos, the Brotherhood of our Father Jesus of Nazareth and the Penitente Brotherhood, is a lay confraternity of Spanish-American Catholic men active in Northern and Central New Mexico and southern Colorado. They maintain religious meeting buildings, which are not formal churches, called moradas.