Note 2 — Penitente Organization
Reading edition
Monro S. Edmonson, Los Manitos: A Study of Institutional Values (Publ. 25, Middle American Research Institute; New Orleans: Tulane University, 1950), p. 43.
[3] Alexander M. Darley, The Passionists of the Southwest (Pueblo, 1893).
[4] E. Boyd, Curator of the Spanish-Colonial Department, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, states that Jesús Trujjillo in 1947 furnished information on other penitente officers, including one man who uses the matraca and one who acts as a sergeant at arms.
[5] Edmonson, loc. cit.
[6] George Wharton James, New Mexico: Land of the Delight Makers (Boston, 1920), lists concisely the Biblical and historical references to religious mortification practiced by New Mexican penitentes.
[7] Darley (op. cit., pp. 8 ff.) gives an exhaustive list of methods of mortification said to be used by penitentes.