Picuris Pueblo in northern New Mexico is getting ready to celebrate its annual feast day on Thursday.

The feast is held in honor of St. Lawrence. David Gaussoin, a tribal member, said Lawrence was chosen because he gave riches to the poor and was the patron saint of cooking.

Gaussion's mother and relatives were busy preparing food for the 300 people they invited to their home at the pueblo. "We never turn anyone away who comes to our house to eat," Connie Tsosie Gaussoin, a noted jeweler, told The Santa Fe New Mexican.

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Picuris Pueblo: Bountiful banquet (The Santa Fe New Mexican 8/9)
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Relevant Links:
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center - http://www.indianpueblo.org