About San Ysidro Labrador Mission · Tesuque, New Mexico
San Ysidro Labrador Mission is a small Catholic mission chapel serving the village of Tesuque, New Mexico, a historic Tewa Pueblo community just north of Santa Fe. It operates as a mission of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Santa Fe, within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The mission takes its name from San Isidro Labrador (St. Isidore the Laborer), the patron saint of farmers, and serves the spiritual needs of Tesuque's small Catholic community with regular Mass and the traditional devotions associated with this beloved saint.
- Patron
- San Ysidro Labrador (St. Isidore the Laborer)
- Diocese
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Why belong here
San Ysidro Labrador Mission is a quiet, intimate Catholic mission in the historic village of Tesuque, rooted in centuries of New Mexico's living faith tradition. As a mission of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, it offers parishioners a personal community tied to the wider Hispanic and Pueblo Catholic heritage of the Santa Fe region.
San Ysidro Labrador Mission
San Ysidro Labrador Mission is the Catholic mission chapel serving Tesuque, New Mexico, within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe. It functions as a mission of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Santa Fe, continuing the centuries-old Catholic presence in this Tewa Pueblo community just north of the state capital.
Faith Community
The mission serves the small but historic Catholic community of Tesuque, where Catholic worship has been celebrated continuously since the Spanish colonial period. Mass and devotions are offered in keeping with the bilingual Hispanic and Pueblo Catholic heritage of northern New Mexico.
San Isidro Labrador, Patron of Farmers
The mission is named for San Ysidro Labrador — St. Isidore the Laborer — a 12th-century Spanish farmworker and Marian devotee who is the patron saint of farmers, rural communities, and laborers. His feast day is celebrated on May 15, a date deeply beloved in New Mexico's agricultural villages, where San Isidro processions and blessings of fields remain an annual tradition.
- Feast day: May 15
- Patronage: farmers, rural communities, laborers
Tesuque and Its Catholic Heritage
Tesuque Pueblo, documented as San Diego de Tesuque under Spanish rule, has been closely tied to the church life of Santa Fe since the city's founding in 1610. Franciscan missionaries administered the sacraments at Tesuque erratically from Santa Fe, and the pueblo's first post-Pueblo Revolt church was built in 1695 under Fray José Díez. The mission tradition in the village continued through the centuries, with a succession of rebuilt and enlarged churches, culminating in the present-day San Ysidro Labrador Mission as part of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
- San Diego de Tesuque, an annex of Santa Fe since 1610
- First post-Revolt church built in 1695
- Church rebuilt in 1745 by Fray Francisco de la Concepción González
- Replaced by a modest adobe church in the 1880s
Connection to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
San Ysidro Labrador Mission is administered as a mission of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Santuario de Guadalupe) in Santa Fe. The Shrine's parish office and website (santuariodeguadalupesantafe.com) serves as the administrative home for the mission, and clergy assigned to the Shrine also minister to the Tesuque mission community.
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe
The mission falls within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe, the oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States, established as a diocese in 1850 and elevated to archdiocese in 1875. The Archdiocese covers central and northern New Mexico and includes many historic mission parishes that trace their origins to the Spanish and Franciscan evangelization of the region.
- Established as a diocese in 1850
- Elevated to archdiocese in 1875