Video (4min 36sec): Christmas Las Posadas at Martinez Hacienda.
Annual Christian observance took place Dec. 18, 2008 at la Hacienda de los Martínez in Taos, New Mexico USA, featuring historian Larry Torres explaining the traditions.
"For those of you who have never been to posadas, it is a devotion that goes on nine nights before Christmas Eve.
"The nine nights stand for the nine months that the Virgin Mary carried the Christ Child in her womb.
"They are nine nights of purification when we step away from our television sets and our radios and our iPods and our computers and all the other things that distract us from the spiritual world..."
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