Quarai

Quarai Mission (Paranormal Claims)

January 4, 2022August 4, 2002 by Cody Polston

The following entry is in the book ” The Haunted Places, The National Directory” by Dennis William Hauck. Visitors to this seventeenth century Spanish mission are surprised to find the ghost of a conquistador still guarding the ruins. He enters through one of the gaps in the adobe walls and is surrounded by a blue-white … Read moreQuarai Mission (Paranormal Claims)

Quarai Mission (History and Description)

January 24, 2022August 4, 2002 by Cody Polston

Like Abó and Las Humanas, red-walled Quarai was a thriving pueblo when Oñate first approached it in 1598 to “accept” its oath of allegiance to Spain. Three of Quarai’s Spanish priests were head of the New Mexico Inquisition during the 1600s, including Fray Estevan de Perea, Custodian of the Franciscan order in the Salinas Jurisdiction … Read moreQuarai Mission (History and Description)