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7. CAMPOSANTO

The open space in the south served as the mission church cemetery, or camposanto. It was customary for Christian converts at Franciscan missions in Spanish colonial New Mexico to be burried in a cemetery surrounded by a low wall.

The Camposanto here was bounded by convento rooms on the east, the pueblo on the west, the church on the north, and Oak Canyon creek to the south.

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