Smithsonian magazine offers an article titled “The Inspiring Monk Who Lived in a New Mexico Cave,” about Giovanni Maria de Agostini, “a peripatetic Italian monk who was banished from Brazil, reached northern New Mexico on foot in 1863.” The monk spent the rest of his New Mexico life in a mountain that came to be known as Hermit Peak. The hermit monk still attracts members of the Societyof the Hermit, local history buffs, the article describing one family of enthusiasts who make an annual pilgrimage to the mountain and cave.
URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/inspiring-monk-lived-new-mexico-cave-180973501/