In the Footsteps of the Hermit - Larry Torres

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The Hermit of La Cueva was a 19th-century mystic and healer who spent his final days in a cave at the base of the Organ Mountains, near what is now called Dripping Springs. Born in Italy as Giovanni María Agostini-Justiniani, he studied for the priesthood but stopped short of taking his vows. After leaving Europe, he spent much of his life wandering South and North America dispensing religious visions and herbal healing.
In Las Vegas, NM, where he lived for some time, local Penitente brothers calling themselves La Sociedad del Ermitaño still revere him by making rosaries out of native plants at Easter.
His gravestone in Mesilla reads, John Mary Justiniani, Hermit of the Old and New World. He died the 17th of April, 1869, at 69 years and 49 years a hermit.
Larry Torres, associate professor of foreign languages at UNM Taos, plays the role of the Hermit in these imagined scenes from the Hermits wanderings in New Mexico.

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[DDBB2012]

Thank you very much for the elucidation of the extremely inspiring life of Giovanni Maria Augustini Justiniani! I have a picture of him, in it he his venerable, peaceful and free from all of the things modern man insatiably desires! I weep tears of joy when I think of him and where he might be now!

[shanabanana922]

i love larry torres.