El Bolsón, Argentina, is what might be called a city of seekers, since many of its inhabitants left Buenos Aires in the 1960s to make their way to this town, located in a valley in the middle of the Andes Mountains. They were searching for answers, meaning, a way of understanding truth. At first, these individuals looked to Eastern religions and alternative medicine for help.
Then, in 1990, a group of them found the road map they were seeking.
"In thinking about how the group began," says Amilcar Sosa, one of the founding members of the Christian Science Society in El Bolsón, "we have to mention one person—Magdalena Linero—a retired woman and a longtime student of Christian Science. She would talk to everybody—in the grocery store, on the street, wherever. And it wouldn't take long for her to speak of the transformations that are produced through the application of Christian Science. She would invite people over to her house to chat, and also to read and study the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
