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Maria Auxiliadora

tehag - 6-18-2008 at 07:35 PM

Another very small BCS town. Anybody know it?





Paulina - 6-18-2008 at 07:39 PM

Someone has to know the triangle church! (I don't)

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oladulce - 6-18-2008 at 08:30 PM

I'm embarrassed to say the map I found shows this town just outside of Ignacio Zaragosa, which means I've been driving by it for 16 years. The pink church looks familiar and I've seen a sign for "Maria Auxiliadora" but didn't realize that was the name of the town- I thought it was like a rotary club roadside sign and it was announcing the "Maria Auxillary" duh...

Thank you Tehag.

bajajudy - 6-18-2008 at 09:00 PM

BEE UUU TEEE FULL
I havent a clue where it is though.
cheers tehag

Wishful Thinking

Gypsy Jan - 6-18-2008 at 09:59 PM

Wish that I know where it is located, wish that I have visited it, wish that I know its history.

Perhaps soon the wishes will be fulfilled.

Paula - 6-18-2008 at 10:03 PM

Is it near Loreto, Tehag? I'd love to visit that church, very unusual!

Skipjack Joe - 6-18-2008 at 10:38 PM

Perhaps at El Triunfo?

History (from the 1962 Lower California Guidebook)

David K - 6-19-2008 at 07:15 AM

The colony of Maria Auxiliadora was established in 1942 (3.3 miles south of Santo Domingo) by the Sinarquistas, a miltant religious (Roman Catholic) group allied with the Spanish Falange.

Some 400 destitute peasants from central Mexico were brought here, but only a few families remain.

Later other groups of colonists were brought over by the Government and a number of cooperative farming colonies have been formed, extending about 60 miles south along the Magdalena Plain.



Maria Auxiliadora

tehag - 6-19-2008 at 08:44 AM

Thanks David. That's the place.

DianaT - 6-19-2008 at 08:56 AM

The photo of the inside of that church is magnificent.

Thanks
Diane

David K - 6-19-2008 at 05:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by tehag
Thanks David. That's the place.


You're welcome! I have always wondered if there was anything still there... and I have stared at that place on the map for years! It was interesting in that there is no road to it shown in the book, and wondered if the town (what was left of it) requested Howard Gulick to not show a road to it to maintain some sort of seclusion?:?:

Thank you for the great contribution of showing an out of the way Baja site!

Maria Auxiliadora

tehag - 6-19-2008 at 09:26 PM

Not very secluded these days; big sign on the main road from Insurgentes to San Juanico and paved right into town.

David K - 6-21-2008 at 07:38 AM

Bad roads = Good people! :saint:

Good roads = All kinds of people! :tumble:

BAJACAT - 6-21-2008 at 09:51 AM

Hey Im one of those All kinds of people.:P

David K - 6-21-2008 at 10:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BAJACAT
Hey Im one of those All kinds of people.:P


Nope Jose... you are one of the 'good people'!!!

I did get your message last week... was just waiting for that call back!

May be at the Del Mar Fair Sunday (wearing Baja Nomad shirt and got baja? hat)!