Sentences with phrase «called penitentes»
These sacred monuments were probably erected near remote chapels (moradas) by secret Catholic lay brotherhoods called Penitentes.
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Those icy ridges found on the Tartarus Dorsa region of Pluto are similar to the so - called penitentes on Earth, making it possible for the same features to exist elsewhere in the solar system, a new study has found.