San Isidro Catholic Church

San Isidro Catholic Church is a New Mexico historical marker in Santa Fe County.

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(Side 1) This 19th century adobe church is dedicated to San Isidro the ploughman, patron saint of farmers and protector of crops. Christian tradition maintains that in order to allow San Isidro time for his daily prayers, an angel plowed his fields. Agua Fria observes the fifteenth of May as “His Day of Goodwill” to San Isidro’s role in this traditionally agricultural community along El Camino Real. (Side 2) Iglesia de San Isidro--Esta iglesia de adobe, del Siglo Diecinueve, está dedicada a San Isidro Labrador, Santo Patrón de los labradores y protector de las cosechas. La tradición Cristiana sostiene que para que San Isidro tuviera tiempro de hacer sus oraciones diarias, un ángel labraba sus campos. La Villa de Agua Fria observa el Quince de Mayo como su "Día de Buena Voluntad" para honar su influencia en ésta comunidad agrícolaa lo largo de El Camino Real.

The Historic Preservation Division notes that its marker spreadsheet may be out of date and in places inaccurate, and that it does not know where every marker now stands. These pages carry the spreadsheet’s record; a marker listed here may have moved or may no longer stand. the program’s page ↗

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Historical maps covering this location

1889 · New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Santa Clara, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · State of New Mexico. General Land Office. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1951 · Agua Fria, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1953 · Agua Fria, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

State of New Mexico. General Land Office, 1927, covering the location of San Isidro Catholic Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — State of New Mexico. General Land Office, 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Official Scenic Historic Markers program, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural AffairsMarker texts come from the Division’s published marker spreadsheet, reproduced with the Division’s written permission. Where that spreadsheet records a coordinate, the pin is the Division’s own; where it records only a highway and mile marker, an address, a junction or a named place, or where its coordinate contradicts its own highway, mile and county, the pin is ours, resolved on public road and place data and marked approximate.

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