Cultural Perspectives, Larry Torres - Videos

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Larry Torres is an Assistant Professor of foreign languages and cultures at The University of New Mexico – Taos. In 1993 Walt Disney, at the America Salutes its Teachers Program, named him outstanding national Foreign Language teacher of the year. He has received numerous honors and awards and has appeared in several magazines. He is a popular speaker in the field of cultural sensitivity and teacher training, as well as a speaker on global education. In the Footsteps of the Hermit The Hermit of La Cueva was a 19th-century mystic and healer who spent his final days in a cave at the base of the Organ Mountains, near what is now called Dripping Springs. Born in Italy as Giovanni María Agostini-Justiniani, he studied for the priesthood but stopped short of taking his vows. After leaving Europe, he spent much of his life wandering South and North America dispensing religious visions and herbal healing. In Las Vegas, NM, where he lived for some time, local Penitente brothers calling themselves La Sociedad del Ermitaño still revere him by making rosaries out of native plants at Easter. His gravestone in Mesilla reads, ?John Mary Justiniani, Hermit of the Old and New World. He died the 17th of April, 1869, at 69 years and 49 years a hermit.? © 2006. Larry Torres. All rights reserved.